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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?
It is used for system catalogs. No reason for users to use it. It is
fixed length 31 or NAMEDATALEN-1, and has no 4-byte length header like
the other text/varchar/char types.
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