character varying length

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#1Noname
developer@wexwarez.com

Are there any negatives to not specifying the length variable of a
character varying data type?

#2Shoaib Mir
shoaibmir@gmail.com
In reply to: Noname (#1)
Re: character varying length

I will recommend using the 'text' data type in that case for better
performance if you do not want to define the length...

Thank you,
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

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On 12/9/06, developer@wexwarez.com <developer@wexwarez.com> wrote:

Are there any negatives to not specifying the length variable of a
character varying data type?

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