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  1. what is the limit for string

    Rosie Sedghi <rosie@macadamian.com> — 2001-05-01T19:11:31Z

    hello 
    Would you tell me how many characters we can have as a string field?
    Thanks a lot.
    
    
  2. Re: what is the limit for string

    Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> — 2001-05-04T19:15:06Z

    On Tue, 1 May 2001, Rosie Sedghi wrote:
    
    > hello 
    > Would you tell me how many characters we can have as a string field?
    > Thanks a lot.
    
    Questions like this should be sent to pgsql-general or pgsql-novice.
    
    There is no string field. There are CHAR, VARCHAR, TEXT, and a few other
    unusual text-type fields.
    
    Look at the section on data types in the User's Manual for info.
    
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    Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
    Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington