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character varying length

From
developer@wexwarez.com
Date:
Are there any negatives to not specifying the length variable of a
character varying data type?

Re: character varying length

From
"Shoaib Mir"
Date:
I will recommend using the 'text' data type in that case for better performance if you do not want to define the length...

Thank you,
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com)

On 12/9/06, developer@wexwarez.com <developer@wexwarez.com > wrote:
Are there any negatives to not specifying the length variable of a
character varying data type?



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