At 10:18 AM 20/03/2003 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>I have been wondering whether we couldn't eliminate the datatype
>distinction between text and varchar.
That would be great if done magically in the backend. If all text columns
were effectively wrapped in a Cast(X to text), life from a users PoV would
be a little simpler. I assume Varchar(20) would still exist and be limited
to 20 chars.
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