On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Actually I'd suggest text[], as there is no good reason to pad the > array entries to a fixed length.
The only reason against is that all other identifiers have this arbitrary limit. But sure, text[] would work just as well and without any restriction. Is the reason to use name at all in pg "just" about speed, or is there some other reason? -- /Dennis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings