Re: [PHPwestoz] [OT] MySQL UNIQUE INDEX

[Leon Brooks <leon@cyberknights.com.au>]

On Monday 21 February 2005 13:52, Evan Barter wrote:
> Timothy White wrote:
>> What's the difference between VARCHAR and TEXT?

> As far as I know, VARCHAR is fixed length while TEXT is dynamic.
> There maybe more differences, but that's the main one off the top of
> my head.

Both are dynamic. VARCHAR without a length is the same as TEXT in 
PostgreSQL, but IIRC while you can't say TEXT(80) to limit the size of 
the field, you can say VARCHAR(80).

Cheers; Leon

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