> Just wanted to know how would it make a difference if i use text datatype > instead of varchar.
Taken from: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype-character.html " If character varying is used without length specifier, the type accepts strings of any size. The latter is a PostgreSQL extension. In addition, PostgreSQL provides the text type, which stores strings of any length. Although the type text is not in the SQL standard, several other SQL database management systems have it as well. ... Tip: There are no performance differences between these three types, apart from the increased storage size when using the blank-padded type. While character(n) has performance advantages in some other database systems, it has no such advantages in PostgreSQL. In most situations text or character varying should be used instead. " Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
