Re: varchar vs char vs text - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Brett W. McCoy
Subject Re: varchar vs char vs text
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.43.0202121744230.5462-100000@chapelperilous.net
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In response to Re: varchar vs char vs text  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> > I'd go with text.  It's not SQL92, though.
>
> Check.
>
> > varchar is technically supposed to have a limit of 255,
>
> Certainly not; the spec says

I sit corrected. :-)

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