Re: Fixed width rows faster?

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 18:43, Mike Nolan wrote:
> > Frankly, the only reason to use anything other than TEXT is compatibility with
> > other databases and applications.
>
> You don't consider a requirement that a field be no longer than a
> certain length a reason not to use TEXT?

Actually, I don't. Good reason to have a check constraint on it though
(hint, check constraints can be changed while column types cannot be, at
this moment).