I know that in PostgreSQL, there is no performance difference between character and character varying.
Is there any penalty in either performance or disk space for not specifying a length on char and varchar fields? Is it really just there only as a basic check constraint for the logical model?
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Brandon Aiken
CS/IT Systems Engineer
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