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From: pmamnani@cs.nmsu.edu (Praveen Mamnani)
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I was converting some programs from SQL to Postgres. SQl uses data type
char(n) where n could be <255. Postgres has char4,8, and 16. How do
I define char of size n in postgres ? 

your help would be appreciated.


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