| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: text vs. varchar |
| Date: | 2010-07-21 16:04:21 |
| Message-ID: | 1279728261.22360.0.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 08:58 -0700, Ben Chobot wrote:
> Is there any difference between "text" and "varchar" data types? (Not varchar(n), just varchar.) I can't see a different from the manual page, but I'm wondering about index usage or something similarly subtle.
They are the same thing. So is varchar(n) it just has a length
constraint.
JD
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