Re: CREATE TYPE similar CHAR type

On 6 March 2014 11:24, Mohsen SM <mohsensoodkhah(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I want use CREATE TYPE to create one type similar to char.
> I want to when I create type, then my type behave similar to char:
>
> CREATE TABLE test (oneChar char);
>
> when I want insert one column with length>1 to it, so it gets this error:
> ERROR: value too long for type character(1)
>
> I want my type behave similar this but it behaves similar varchar type.
>
>
If you did that, you'd have a char field padded out to fill up 10
megabytes-worth of characters. I doubt that's what you want.

It's not clear what you want this for though. If you want an arbitrary
number of characters, just use the text data type.
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Thom