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Asked: May 18, 20262026-05-18T01:07:08+00:00 2026-05-18T01:07:08+00:00

We have a very large historical table that contains a column with at most

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We have a very large historical table that contains a column with at most 500 UTF8 characters, and the disk space grows really fast!

We’re having at least 2 million rows a day… and we were wondering which would do a better job (mostly in storage but in performance as well)? TEXT or VARCHAR(512)?

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    2026-05-18T01:07:09+00:00Added an answer on May 18, 2026 at 1:07 am

    VARCHAR is probably preferable in your case from both the storage and performance perspective. View this oft-reposted article.

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