Re: varchar(n) VS text - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: varchar(n) VS text
Date
Msg-id 20070628013559.GE561@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: varchar(n) VS text  (Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au>)
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Paul Lambert wrote:

> Looks like my bad - I created the table initially through pgAdminIII and
>  it appears I selected the wrong character varying from the dropdown list.
>
> CREATE TABLE tester
> (
>   test_varchar character varying[],
>   test_text text
> )
>
> If I change it to character varying(20) it works fine.

Yeah, what you chose is an array of varchar.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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