X-Original-To: pgsql-admin-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823A0D1B42F for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:36:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35649-10 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:36:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from wolff.to (wolff.to [66.93.249.74]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A37CD1B4AC for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:36:19 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 6085 invoked by uid 500); 8 Dec 2003 15:35:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:35:52 -0600 From: Bruno Wolff III To: Somasekhar Bangalore Cc: Ganesan Kanavathy , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Field Size Message-ID: <20031208153552.GA5971@wolff.to> Mail-Followup-To: Somasekhar Bangalore , Ganesan Kanavathy , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200312/90 X-Sequence-Number: 11598 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 18:36:57 +0530, Somasekhar Bangalore 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.