Re: How to handle larger databases?

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Geoffrey <esoteric(at)3times25(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to handle larger databases?
Date: 2004-11-23 00:35:07
Message-ID: 1101170107.12361.24.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:59 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> So that would say the previous statements are not accurate? That is,
> there's no problem with using a varchar?

Right; there is no reason to prefer CHAR(n) over VARCHAR(n), unless you
need whitespace padding.

-Neil

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