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Re:PostgreSQL is enough by bun_terminator on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:21PM (#39279184)
I think my wtf moment was that you can't have real variable length strings. And I'm pretty pampered by c++ highly nuanced numeric types with varying sizes and signed/unsigned.
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Re:PostgreSQL is enough by DanielHB on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:59AM (#39287037)
fair enough, relational DBs are optimised for querying so you often see tradeoffs like this.
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Re:PostgreSQL is enough by garfij on Thursday February 08, 2024 @06:12PM (#39309089)
Other people have said it in this thread, but I think your experience is being severely clouded by Oracle. Postgres, MySql, and all have the `TEXT` datatype which are variable length (though with some upper bound)
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