OK. But I was under the impression that text fields had issues with indexing 
still. Am I wrong here?

(Yes I need to do some more reading on this issue :-)

Peter

On Sat August 2 2003 02:05, Guy Fraser wrote:
> It has been brought up in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list,
> buy the developers.
>
> The reason given is that "varchar(x)" checks to make sure the data is
> not larger than 'x' bytes, but "text" does not.
>
> If the application handles the data size constraints there is no reason
> for the database to check again.
>
> Guy
>
> Peter Nixon wrote:
> >On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 05:53 am, Guy Fraser wrote:
> >>I have the new release now.
> >>
> >>I see that there has been some work done with the postgres sql file, the
> >>main difference between the new one and the one I setup was that I used
> >>'text' instead of 'varchar(x)' because it is faster.
> >
> >Are you sure about this? Can you point me to some documentation?
>
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