Rakesh Kumar schrieb am 26.09.2016 um 15:08:
>>You sound like you think that varchar(50) is somehow cheaper than text.
>
> The biggest impediment to text cols in other RDBMS is no index allowed.
> If PG has an elegant solution to that, then yes I see the point made by the
> original poster.
Don't confuse Postgres' "text" data type with "text" in other DBMS.
There is no difference whatsoever between varchar and text in Postgres.