Re: Disk space consumption: character varying(255) versus text used for index

Marcel Ruff <ruff(at)netwake(dot)com> writes:
> my btree index for
>    guid                | character varying(255)
> is currently 6.9GB (almost all guid entries are of size 37bytes)
> If I would change the data type to
>   guid                | text
> would the index size be reduced (without hitting performance)?

Wouldn't make any difference at all.

regards, tom lane