On Jul 29, 12:37 pm, Scott LaBounty <[email protected]> wrote: > Would the difference only show up if I moved to a different database, say > MySQL or similar?
Yes. On MySQL, String is varchar(255), while String :text=>true is text. On PostgreSQL, String is text and String :text=>false is varchar (255). This is because MySQL's text type has limitations most users would find unacceptable as the standard string type (e.g. you can't set a default). On PostgreSQL, text doesn't have additional restrictions over varchar(255), so it is used as the additional capacity makes it a better fit for Ruby's String class (which doesn't have a length restriction of 255 characters). Jeremy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
