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

Report by Peter Geoghegan

Backpatch through 9.5

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index a56f327fa3cd47c3185a56bb76056ab9952ab655..c47c7f4cb1bcc66ee2585c9fa69aab11a9d1ccd3 100644 (file)
--- 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
      PostgreSQL; in fact
      character(n) 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
      text or character varying should be used
      instead.