| From: | "Peter C(dot) Lai" <peter(at)simons-rock(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Armand Turpel <armand(dot)turpel(at)googlemail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: varchar[] or text[] |
| Date: | 2010-07-22 18:18:18 |
| Message-ID: | 20100722181817.GS35187@cesium.hyperfine.info |
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This was discussed yesterday and previously. Please read the archives.
There is no positive performance reason to use varchar instead of text.
On 2010-07-22 05:38:14PM +0200, Armand Turpel wrote:
> Hi,
> I know this issue was controversed discussed. Some one see no really
> benefits of using varchar against text var. But i'm asking me what if i
> use it as array values. Is there any difference between varchar[126],
> varchar[10000] and text[] else than the number of chars i can store in?
> Performance, memory usage, ....?
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