From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Somasekhar Bangalore <sbangalore@zensutra.com>
Cc: Ganesan Kanavathy <ganesh@magnusquest.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Field Size
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:35:52 -0600
Message-ID: <20031208153552.GA5971@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BF493B193A334743AA9EF48945E69C13518E54@exchange.india.zensutra.com>
References: <BF493B193A334743AA9EF48945E69C13518E54@exchange.india.zensutra.com>
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 18:36:57 +0530,
Somasekhar Bangalore <sbangalore@zensutra.com> wrote:
> There is no harm in having a field size of 1000 character provided u use the proper datatype. Don't user char(1000). Try using varchar(1000).
And if the 1000 limit is just a large number you picked rather than a
real rule for your data, then you probably want to use the TEXT type.
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