On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Since varchar(n) is SQL-standard syntax, can't you simply adopt the more
> standard name for both databases?
>
A long time ago Oracle made the varchar type equivalent to char and once
people complained about the excess space used by short entries they came
out with varchar2 which they've maintained every since valuing backwards
compatability more than the sql standard.
Kris Jurka
