From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: CHAR, VARCHAR, TEXT (Was Large Databases)
Date: 08 Oct 2002 12:42:20 -0500
Message-ID: <1034098940.1336.39.camel@haggis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-1775407@davinci.ethosmedia.com>
References: <web-1775407@davinci.ethosmedia.com>
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:33, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Ron, Shridhar,
>
> Maybe I missed something on this thread, but can either of you give me
> an example of a real database where the PostgreSQL approach of "all
> strings are TEXT" versus the more traditional CHAR implementation have
> resulted in measurable performance loss?
??????
> Otherwise, this discussion is rather academic ...
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