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From	Ganesan Kanavathy
Subject	Field Size
Date	December 9, 2003 19:13:32
Msg-id	006301c3bd8a$18976f60$5400a8c0@headquarters.mq.com Whole thread Raw
List	pgsql-sql

Can anyone tell me, what harm would setting a field size to 1000 characters do to the size?

By increasing the size, will the database require more space? Or does it only consume space if there is data in the field only?

Regards,

Ganesan

From: "Somasekhar Bangalore"
Date: 09 December 2003, 19:11:42
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Field Size

From: david_shadovitz@xontech.com (David Shadovitz)
Date: 09 December 2003, 19:15:01
Subject: Fetch a single record