Re: Function args: TEXT -vs- VARCHAR?

On 2013-11-12 Tue 19:23 PM |, Luca Vernini wrote:
> I like to have constraint, so I usually use character varying.

Same here, I have no text columns. All strings are stored as character
varying.

> Anyway, there is no performance difference:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/datatype-character.html
>

Interesting, although that performance tip is about table storage, not
casting arguments from text to character varying within a function.

> So use character varying just if you can, or if you must limit the input.
>

Yes, I'll change the function args to be the same as the table columns
so the functions fail on over length input, rather than going through
the process of validating customer id & account, only to fail on data.

Therefore => performace increase with character varying function args.

Thanks,
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