On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Josh Berkus wrote:
Wei,
Is there any disadvantage of using TEXT datatype as opposed to a VARCHAR
datatype with a maximum length, especially when I do searches on them?
Yes. You can't index TEXT because it's of potentially unlimited length.
Well indexing text
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:07, Wei Weng wrote:
Is there any disadvantage of using TEXT datatype as opposed to a VARCHAR
datatype with a maximum length, especially when I do searches on them?
There is one big disadvantage that I've found, but might be utterly
unimportant to you. Some applications
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:59, Josh Berkus wrote:
Wei,
Is there any disadvantage of using TEXT datatype as opposed to a VARCHAR
datatype with a maximum length, especially when I do searches on them?
Yes. You can't index TEXT because it's of potentially unlimited length.
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-Josh
I have no trouble indexing TEXT datatype in postgres-7.x
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From: Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes. You can't index TEXT because it's of potentially unlimited length.
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