On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, Rui DeSousa <
rui@crazybean.net> wrote:
Don’t fool yourself, you are not future proofing your application; what really is happening is a slow creeping data quality issue which later needs a special project just clean up.
I don’t use text instead of varchar(n) for future proofing and use it quite well within well defined relational schemas. Using varchar(n) in a table always has a better solution, use text and a constraint.
David J.
