--- scuffio <simone.dicola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would want to know as I make to control that the length of the field > character insert is of one sure dimension A check constraint can certainly do this. If you want to generalize it, you can roll you check constraint into a domain (user defined column type). http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/ddl-constraints.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-createdomain.html Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.