One disadvantage is that if you are using MS Access as a front-end via
ODBC / linked tables, you can not do joins on fields set as text (in
queries, etc)
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Bax [mailto:fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:55 AM
To: PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Disadvantages to using "text"
Aurynn Shaw wrote:
> Internally, Postgres treats a VARCHAR(n) as a TEXT with a CHECK
> constraint applied to it, so VARCHAR is going to be slightly slower to
use.
Don't you mean VARCHAR(n) will be slightly slower on UPDATES.