On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:08:06 pm Carlos Mennens wrote: > I've noticed when I set a field to char, it takes up lots of space over > varchar: > > iamunix=# SELECT * FROM music; > id | band | album | date | > asin | label > ----+-------------------+--------------------------+------------+---------- > ------------------------------------------+-------------- 1 | Dance Gavin > Dance | Downtown Battle Mountain | 2007-05-15 | > B000OQF4PQ | Rise Records > (1 row) > > iamunix=# SELECT * FROM music; > id | band | album | date | > asin | label > ----+-------------------+--------------------------+------------+---------- > --+-------------- 1 | Dance Gavin Dance | Downtown Battle Mountain | > 2007-05-15 | > B000OQF4PQ | Rise Records > (1 row) > > I don't know how well it will show in plain text via email but does > anyone know why the field display width is wasted with so much white > space when set to char?
You will find that the Manual is very helpful in this regard:) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/datatype-character.html character varying(n), varchar(n) variable-length with limit character(n), char(n) fixed-length, blank padded -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
