Re: varchar lengths

On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 07:23:45 Massa, Harald Armin wrote:
> I recommend to use TEXT as type for that kind of columns.
> 99 out of 100 theories about "this value will never be longer then xx
> characters" fail in the long run.
>
> And "text", limited only by PostgreSQLs limits, performs as good or
> better then varchar(length_limit) The time of "we only can allow n
> chars for first name" for performance reasons have gone by, together
> with walkmen and VHS.
>
>
> Harald

Also, if you are absolutely set on a constraint on the length of the text, you
can use a trigger for this and when the constraint changes, and it will, you
simply modify the trigger.

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