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


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