On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:50:18AM +0200, Sim Zacks wrote: > Are there any differences between text and varchar? I found the following in > the docs, which leads me to believe that there are no differences at all. > Can someone please confirm this before I switch all my varchars to text?
Correct. The only difference between varchar and text is that varchar can have a maximum length, which will be checked. As for storage used, indexability, operators, etc they're identical. Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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