Rakesh Kumar schrieb am 26.09.2016 um 15:08: >>You sound like you think that varchar(50) is somehow cheaper than text. > > The biggest impediment to text cols in other RDBMS is no index allowed. > If PG has an elegant solution to that, then yes I see the point made by the > original poster. Don't confuse Postgres' "text" data type with "text" in other DBMS. There is no difference whatsoever between varchar and text in Postgres. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general