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> varchar means 'character varying'. What varies is the length. So a
> varchar(1000) with 'foo' in it only takes a few bytes ('foo' plus length
> info) instead of 1000 bytes.
Yes i know it, but i have vorgotten to inform you that all the values of
this attribute have really 1000 characthers length.
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> If you really want a fixed-length field, nchar or char should do what you
> want.