Greetings!
The database we install at our customers as part of our product includes
an event_history table. For some reason lost in the mists of time, the
most important field in that table, the description, is a varchar field
specified to be only 64 characters long. This leads me to a more
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- Original Message -
From: Rob Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:07:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [GENERAL] Varchar vs varchar(64)
Greetings!
The database we install at our customers as part of our product includes
Rob Richardson wrote:
The database we install at our customers as part of our
product includes an event_history table. For some reason
lost in the mists of time, the most important field in that
table, the description, is a varchar field specified to be
only 64 characters long. This
Albe Laurenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob Richardson wrote:
Are there other reasons to use
varchar(64) instead of varchar?
You can't have varchar without a length in parentheses,
as far as I know.
That's what the spec says and that's what some other implementations
require, but not
