On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 07:32:12AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Friday, November 5, 2021, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
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> >
> > Perhaps, right before the tip you quoted, something like that:
> >
> > If your use case requires a length limit on character data, or
> compliance
> > with the SQL standard is important, use "character varying".
> > Otherwise, you are usually better off with "text".
>
> I can support that if others think it is valuable.
>
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> The motivating complaint is that we should be encouraging people to use varchar
> (4000) instead of text so external tools can optimize. If we are not going to
> do that I really don’t see the pointing in changing away from out current
> position of “only use text”. True length limit requirements for data are rare,
> and better done in constraints along with all other the other constraint that
> may exist for the data. I believe comments with respect to the SQL standard
> are already present and adequate.
Agreed.
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