On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > curious though, but why would such a type even be used in the system
> > tables?  what difference does it have to a varchar(256)?
> 
> It was *fixed* length, not varlena.  256 bytes, no more, no less,
> no length word, no nuthin.

okay, reword ... what would have been the difference between that and
char(256)? :)  I'm just curious as to whether it had any checks that would
have validated it as being a filename or something like that, that's all
... 

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• Re: Anyone care about type "filename" ? at 2000-08-01 04:04:37 from Tom Lane

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• Re: Anyone care about type "filename" ? at 2000-08-01 21:23:53 from Tom Lane

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