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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:03:10 -0500
From: Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>
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On 8/19/2011 4:03 AM, Krzysztof Chodak wrote:
> Is there any performance benefit of using constant size tuples?
>

If you are referring to varchar(80) vs text, then no, there is no benefit.

-Andy