Field Size

From: "Ganesan Kanavathy" <ganesh(at)epedas(dot)com(dot)my>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Field Size
Date: 2003-12-08 12:52:03
Message-ID: 006301c3bd8a$18976f60$5400a8c0@headquarters.mq.com
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Can anyone tell me, what harm would setting a field size to 1000
characters do to the size?

By increasing the size, will the database require more space? Or does it
only consume space if there is data in the field only?

Regards,
Ganesan

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