On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:59, Josh Berkus wrote: > Wei, > > > Is there any disadvantage of using TEXT datatype as opposed to a VARCHAR > > datatype with a maximum length, especially when I do searches on them? > > Yes. You can't index TEXT because it's of potentially unlimited length. > > -- > -Josh Berkus > > I noticed that it is a characteristics of MS SQL Server, but I did successfully create unique index based on a TEXT field in Postgresql 7.2, while that failed in MS SQL Server (7).
Or do they behave the same in this aspect? Thanks -- Wei Weng Network Software Engineer KenCast Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
