"Siddharth Anand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can a field that doesn't have a limit like "text" perform similarly to
> char varying(128), for example? At some point, we need to write data to
> disk. The more data that needs to be written, the longer the disk write
> will take, especially when it requires finding free sectors to write to.
What's your point? If you're not going to put more than 128 characters
in the field, there's no difference in the amount of data involved.
regards, tom lane
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