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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:36:41 +0200
From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
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To: Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: Field length ??
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Hi, Frank,

Frank Bax wrote:

> Except that the original fields were neither variable length datatypes,
> not type text.
>         create table test(]
>         satu char(10),
>         dua char(5)
>         );

char is a textual type (in opposite to numeric types), and they are
handled as variable length datatypes internally (even if given a limit).

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/datatype-character.html

HTH,
Markus
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