Kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jun 26, 12:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote:
>> "Pierre Thibaudeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> I am puzzling over this issue:
>>> 1) Is there ever ANY reason to prefer "varchar(n)" to "text" as a column
>>> type?
>>
>> In words of one syllable: no.
> If you have any input from untrusted sources (like in a web app)
> wouldn't it be easier to attack the server if you had a text field,
> like by sending a couple TB of data over that pgsql then needs to
> store, on a server that doesn't have that amount of space?
Well, the hard limit on a text field (or any other field) is 1Gb,
so it'd not be quite as easy as that, even assuming that the webapp
doesn't fall over first.
regards, tom lane
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