From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: CHAR, VARCHAR, TEXT (Was Large Databases)
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:33:53 -0700
Message-ID: <web-1775407@davinci.ethosmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1034090215.1094.42.camel@haggis>
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 ...
-Josh Berkus
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