text vs varchar

From: Wei Weng <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: text vs varchar
Date: 2002-06-18 22:07:40
Message-ID: 1024438061.16895.2.camel@Monet
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Is there any disadvantage of using TEXT datatype as opposed to a VARCHAR
datatype with a maximum length, especially when I do searches on them?

Thanks

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Wei Weng
Network Software Engineer
KenCast Inc.

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