Re: PostgreSQL CHARACTER VARYING vs CHARACTER VARYING (Length)

2020-04-28 Thread Paul Carlucci
PG the text, character varying, character varying(length), character column types are all the same thing with each column type inheriting the properties from the parent type. With each successive type further properties are added but they're all basically just "text" with some additional metadata.

Re: PostgreSQL CHARACTER VARYING vs CHARACTER VARYING (Length)

2020-04-28 Thread Ashutosh Bapat
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 2:53 PM Rajin Raj wrote: > > Is there any impact of using the character varying without providing the > length while creating tables? > I have created two tables and inserted 1M records. But I don't see any > difference in pg_class. (size, relpage) > > create table test_1

PostgreSQL CHARACTER VARYING vs CHARACTER VARYING (Length)

2020-04-28 Thread Rajin Raj
Is there any impact of using the character varying without providing the length while creating tables? I have created two tables and inserted 1M records. But I don't see any difference in pg_class. (size, relpage) create table test_1(name varchar); create table test_2(name varchar(50)); insert in