Re: Disadvantages to using "text"

--- Aurynn Shaw <ashaw@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Internally, Postgres treats a VARCHAR(n) as a TEXT with a
> CHECK
> constraint applied to it, so VARCHAR is going to be slightly
> slower to use.

VARCHAR is slower too? There's no check on VARCHAR, is there?

Bruce


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