Hi,
I am writing a program to do queries on a lot of different databases. I have
run into something with varchar I didn't expect.
With mySQL varchar is limited to 255 with postgress it is unlimited it
seems. I only know because it seems to work, not because their stupid
documentation told me, that you can have any length varchar. For instance I
have a varchar 4000 in a postgress database.
My question is, how standard is mySQL being by limiting varchar to 255 ? I
will have to make some provision for this because I want my queries to work
with postgress as well, but I wondered too if I should look into other
issues like this with lengths of fields?
Thanks,
Eric
Frazier Consulting
http://www.kwinternet.com/eric
(250) 655 - 9513
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