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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: text .vs. varchar
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Msg-id 20080813161034.GA4672@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: text .vs. varchar  (Martin Gainty <mgainty@hotmail.com>)
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Martin Gainty wrote:

> With Postgres appears that TEXT is preferred over varchar(N)
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-03/msg01522.php

Implementation-wise, they are exactly the same, modulo length checking.

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