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Re: TEXT or LONGTEXT?



On 9/24/07, Fabiola Fernández <fabiola(dot)fg(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a database with an amount of tables and in several of them I have an
> attribute for a semantic definition, for which I use a field of type text. I
> am trying to decide if it would be worth using LONGTEXT instead of TEXT, as
> maybe it would slow down the data insertion and extraction. I hope that you
> could help me. Thank you.

Easy choice -- PostgreSQL does not have a data type named "longtext".

Alexander.


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