On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 06:28:23PM +0700, Ahmad Fajar wrote:
> than you can index the field and you can gain better
> perfomance in searching base on the fields, because the search uses the
> index you have been created.
That really depends on the queries. An index will help some queries (notably
: Kamis, 06 Oktober 2005 1:22
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: [PERFORM] Text/Varchar performance...
Hello, just a little question, It's preferable to use Text Fields or
varchar(255) fields in a table? Are there any performance differences in the
use of a
Cristian,
> Hello, just a little question, It's preferable to use Text Fields or
> varchar(255) fields in a table? Are there any performance differences in
> the use of any of them?
TEXT, VARCHAR, and CHAR use the same underlying storage mechanism. This
means that TEXT is actually the "fastest
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:21:35PM -0600, Cristian Prieto wrote:
> Hello, just a little question, It's preferable to use Text Fields or
> varchar(255) fields in a table? Are there any performance differences in the
> use of any of them?
They are essentially the same. Note that you can have varchar
Hello, just a little question, It's preferable to use Text Fields or
varchar(255) fields in a table? Are there any performance differences in the
use of any of them?
Thanks a lot for your answer!
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