Re: Replacing all CHAR colums with VARCHAR - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Replacing all CHAR colums with VARCHAR
Date
Msg-id 20070102170601.GA20066@wolff.to
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In response to Replacing all CHAR colums with VARCHAR  ("Andrus" <kobruleht2@hot.ee>)
List pgsql-general
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:37:59 +0200,
  Andrus <kobruleht2@hot.ee> wrote:
>
> Also Tom Lane strongly recommends using VARCHAR always and never use CHAR
> columns.

If you just want to use Postgres, you might want to use 'text' instead of
'varchar', since you don't need to specify arbitrarylimits for that type.
This isn't portable though.

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