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From: Ganesan Kanavathy <ganesh@epedas.com.my>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Field Size
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:52:03 +0800
Message-ID: <006301c3bd8a$18976f60$5400a8c0@headquarters.mq.com> (raw)

Can anyone tell me, what harm would setting a field size to 1000
characters do to the size?
 
By increasing the size, will the database require more space? Or does it
only consume space if there is data in the field only?
 
Regards,
Ganesan
 

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