On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:10:41AM -0700, Jay O'Connor wrote:
> I created a database schema and based on the test data I had to work with,
> I couldn't really determine the max size of a lot of string fields so I
> just left a lot of fields as varchar
>
> A comment from a coworker was that this would cause a performance problem
>
> Based on the docs, they say that there's not performance difference between
> using varchar(n) and text.
The only difference comes from checking the length for the limited
fields, so varchar(n) will be very slightly slower than text.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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