Re: [HACKERS] to text or not to text

>
> The docs say that the text type is the "Best choice" of the character data
> types. It was always my understanding that the text type was stored else-
> where in the database and a pointer to it was stored in the actual table.
> Does PostgreSQL do this or is a more efficient way been found? It seems
> that it'd be too expensive to store it elsewhere. I'm making some changes
> to a table and wanted to optomize it (varchar vs text).

Internally, text is stored just like char(). Only large objects are
stored outside the database.

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