[rt-devel] RT 2.0.14-pre1

[Jesse Vincent]

> Actually, the limit is 100 characters, for transactions.data.  Older
> PostgreSQL versions silently truncated overlong values for VARCHAR
> columns, but newer ones (since 7.2 or so) don't.

Urk. they changed that behavior?

 
> Looks like I have to restructure the whole database. :-/
> 
> Jesse, maybe it's a good idea to use TEXT fields instead of VARCHAR
> fields when creating new PostgreSQL databases?  According to the
> documentation, there is no performance difference.


Hm. are there no other tradeoffs, or are texts now just superlong varchars?

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