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From	mike
Subject	name vs text vs varchar
Date	March 5, 2001 14:52:14
Msg-id	001901c0a594$c8c0b830$0100000a@Domain.wyd2002.org Whole thread Raw
Responses	Re: name vs text vs varchar
List	pgsql-general

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reading through the curent development docs, I've run accross a data type called "name", and it looks very similar to varchar or text, and I'm wondering if there is any atvantage to useing this data type over varchar or even text?

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