Re: varchar vs text

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:50:18AM +0200, Sim Zacks wrote:
> Are there any differences between text and varchar? I found the following in
> the docs, which leads me to believe that there are no differences at all.
> Can someone please confirm this before I switch all my varchars to text?

Correct. The only difference between varchar and text is that varchar
can have a maximum length, which will be checked. As for storage used,
indexability, operators, etc they're identical.

Hope this helps,
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