Postgresql Ansi Odbc Review

: Typically limited to characters within the 0–255 range (standard ASCII and extended ASCII) but can handle some multibyte sets like EUC_JP or Big5.

For workloads with many small strings, the Unicode driver is noticeably faster. For write-heavy with legacy ANSI apps, the conversion overhead is unavoidable but often acceptable (<5% CPU impact). postgresql ansi odbc