Re: How to handle larger databases? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: How to handle larger databases?
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Msg-id 20041122103801.GB6330@svana.org
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In response to Re: How to handle larger databases?  (Patrick B Kelly <pbk@patrickbkelly.org>)
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:09:49AM -0500, Patrick B Kelly wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2004, at 2:37 AM, Jerry III wrote:
>
> >Do not use variable length types.
> >
>
> Why do you suggest not using variable length types?

Especially since PostgreSQL has no fixed length string types, so
following that advice would exclude any strings. That's kind of
useless.
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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