On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jon Nelson <[email protected]> writes:
>> I thought 'character varying' (aka varchar) sans length was an alias
>> for text. Is it not?
>
> It has the same behavior, but it is a distinct type, so dummy coercions
> are needed.

Are there any performance implications for this dummy coercion?
Especially in joins.


-- 
Jon

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