On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Pierre Thibaudeau wrote:
From my reading of the dataype documentation, the ONLY reason I can think of for using "varchar(n)" would be in order to add an extra data-type constraint to the column.
That's my understanding as well. I can think of a few reasons to use char(n) over text if you know exactly how many characters you will always have, but char isn't what you asked about.
