Durgamahesh Manne schrieb am 15.10.2018 um 11:18:
> was there any specific reason that you have given max length for varchar is limited to 10485760 value?
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> why you have not given max length for varchar is unlimited like text datatype ?
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> |character varying(/|n|/)|, |varchar(/|n|/)|variable-length with limit
> |character(/|n|/)|, |char(/|n|/)|fixed-length, blank padded
> |text|variable unlimited length
It "text" type is a "character string" just like all the other character types and thus is also limited to 1GB
"text", "varchar", "character varying" and "character" are all identical in how they are stored and processed.
Thomas
