Re: Type TEXT

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 18:18, Joo Paulo Batistella wrote:

> I'm new to Postgre and I would like to know if is
> there any problem of type text compared to VARCHAR?

If you *know* that the length of text cannot or must not exceed n
characters, use VARCHAR(n); otherwise use TEXT.

There is no performance loss from using TEXT.

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