Re: Scalar in a range (but textual not numeric)

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Edmund Bacon <ebacon(at)onesystem(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Scalar in a range (but textual not numeric)
Date: 2004-02-26 15:26:08
Message-ID: 20040226152608.GA19652@wolff.to
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:55:14 -0700,
Edmund Bacon <ebacon(at)onesystem(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:18, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
> As a complete aside:
>
> Is there any advantage to use varchar instead of type text?

Only if there is a business rule that limits the length of the data.

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