9.5 release notes: mention lack of char() sort improvements

bmomjian · bmomjian · commit 63c6522dae38 · 2015-08-26T10:33:02.000-04:00
Report by Peter Geoghegan

Backpatch through 9.5
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1114,7 +1114,8 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8;
      advantages in some other database systems, there is no such advantage in
      <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>; in fact
      <type>character(<replaceable>n</>)</type> is usually the slowest of
-     the three because of its additional storage costs.  In most situations
+     the three because of its additional storage costs and slower
+     sorting.  In most situations
      <type>text</type> or <type>character varying</type> should be used
      instead.
     </para>
