Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.5.174 with SMTP id t14mr1993997igt.11.1355872541437; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:15:41 -0800 (PST) X-Newsgroups: pgsql.general Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:15:41 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@xxxxxxxxxx Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.217.89.1; posting-account=lOEuBgoAAAD6Qw4dpoqeBAJHKoD58tcK User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6087737c-f946-4698-92f0-3ea72a56aa2b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: question about varchar From: Rui Li <rui.vapps@xxxxxxxxx> Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:15:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In postgresql, we can create column as =93varchar(n)=94 where n is the size= of the char, or we can just define column as =93varchar=94 rli=3D# CREATE TABLE test (v1 varchar(100), v2 varchar); CREATE TABLE rli=3D# \d test Table "public.test" Column | Type | Modifiers --------+------------------------+----------- v1 | character varying(100) | v2 | character varying | so my question is: why should we even declare character varying(n) in postg= resql when there=92s an easier options to declaring character varying (with= out n)=20 is there any performance different between it? or some other reason we shou= ld use varchar(n) instead of just varchar? thanks for any help -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general