This is a rebuttal to depesz's charx, varcharx, varchar, and text
and David Fetter's varchar(n) considered harmful.
I respect both depesz and David and in fact enjoy reading their blogs. We just have deferring opinions on the topic.
For starters, I am pretty tired of the following sentiments from some PostgreSQL people:
- 99% of the people who choose varchar(x) over text in PostgreSQL in most cases
are just ignorant folk and don't realize that text is just as fast if not faster than varchar in PostgreSQL.
- stuff your most despised database here compatibility is not high on my priority list.
- It is unfortunate you have to work with the crappy tools you work with that can't see the beauty in PostgreSQL text implementation.
Just get something better that treats PostgreSQL as the superior creature it is.
