Character fields and length

I know that in PostgreSQL, there is no performance difference between
character and character varying.

Is there any penalty in either performance or disk space for not
specifying a length on char and varchar fields? Is it really just there
only as a basic check constraint for the logical model?

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Brandon Aiken

CS/IT Systems Engineer

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