| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | Somasekhar Bangalore <sbangalore(at)zensutra(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ganesan Kanavathy <ganesh(at)magnusquest(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Field Size |
| Date: | 2003-12-08 15:35:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20031208153552.GA5971@wolff.to |
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 18:36:57 +0530,
Somasekhar Bangalore <sbangalore(at)zensutra(dot)com> wrote:
> There is no harm in having a field size of 1000 character provided u use the proper datatype. Don't user char(1000). Try using varchar(1000).
And if the 1000 limit is just a large number you picked rather than a
real rule for your data, then you probably want to use the TEXT type.
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