Re: varchar vs char vs text

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Singer Wang wrote:

> if I have a column that's gonna be between 5-300 charactors...  should I go with a
> a charactor? varchar? or a text?
>
> what's the performance penalty going with a text instead of a varchar... or a char?
> I don't need to index it.... nor search based on it..

I'd go with text.  It's not SQL92, though.  varchar is technically
supposed to have a limit of 255, but I don't think that limit
exists in Postgres.

-- Brett
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