The reason I ask is because the documentation says "If character varying is used without length specifier, the type accepts strings of any size. The latter is a PostgreSQL extension." I wasn't sure if such an extension meant there was a level of over-head involved, or reduced its indexability.
2009/1/27 Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> > Thom Brown wrote: > > Is there a real difference between a varchar without a specified length > and > > the text datatype? > > No. > > Wish all questions were that easy :-) > > -- > Richard Huxton > Archonet Ltd >
