Re: [GENERAL] Character Data Type 'Name'

2008-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
Andy Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm creating my own table of metadata about other tables in my > database. As such, one column will be the names of those other tables, > and the maximum length of the data in this column would be the allowed > length of an identifier. So one possib

[GENERAL] Character Data Type 'Name'

2008-04-29 Thread Andy Anderson
I'm creating my own table of metadata about other tables in my database. As such, one column will be the names of those other tables, and the maximum length of the data in this column would be the allowed length of an identifier. So one possible data type for this column would be 'varchar(N