I have a form where clients will be typing a few paragraphs in various textarea’s. Should I choose varchar or text for field type? Does it matter?
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Erik
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I have a form where clients will be typing a few paragraphs in various textarea’s. Should I choose varchar or text for field type? Does it matter?
Thanks.
Erik
It depends on the possible length of text you accept. Text has no limitations at all, but that means you could end up with a giant, huge, ridiculous response size. On the other hand, if you’re not worried about that, text is fine.
Varchar requires you to have some idea of how large you want the response to max out at, like 256, 1000, 4000 chars, for example. Any data above that is lost.