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From: Vlad Dimitriu <vlad.dimitriu@base.ro>
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I would design those columns as text
and enforce value length restrictions with triggers.

It's a false problem:  I define the data type for a field and
want to check his value after the exception that I can't fit
larger data into my field.

Thank you, Rod, Tom ....