Subject Re: [firebird-support] What are the trade-offs of CHAR vs. VARCHAR?
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
13.11.2019 15:51, blackfalconsoftware@... [firebird-support] wrote:
> However, internally, the CHAR field definition is more efficient as the database does not
> have to perform any field size calculations at the moment that data is being updated to a
> VARCHAR field.

No such calculations is performed in Firebird. Both CHAR and VARCHAR are always stored
with full declared length.


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WBR, SD.