Re: CHAR, VARCHAR, TEXT (Was Large Databases)

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:33, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Ron, Shridhar,
>
> Maybe I missed something on this thread, but can either of you give me
> an example of a real database where the PostgreSQL approach of "all
> strings are TEXT" versus the more traditional CHAR implementation have
> resulted in measurable performance loss?

??????

> Otherwise, this discussion is rather academic ...

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