Character Data Types, Why is Text Best?

From: Jesse Estevez <jestevez(at)travel-italy(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Character Data Types, Why is Text Best?
Date: 2000-05-18 14:50:01
Message-ID: 200005181450.KAA41106@hub.org
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Why is text the recommended character data type?

Is it accessed faster than the other data types?

Jesse
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