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The full name of the conference is 34 characters long: SELECT LENGTH('PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2026'); = 34
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You need a CHAR(36) to store a UUID - or you can use the UUID type and store this in 16 bytes.
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The precision for a NUMERIC type in some other databases can go up to 38. 10^38 fits into 128 bits.The precision for a NUMERIC type in PostgreSQL is up to 1000 for exact numbers.
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An IPv6 address in text form requires up to 39 characters, however the INET type only requires 22 bytes to store the address.
SELECT LENGTH('abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd'::TEXT); = 39 versus SELECT pg_column_size('abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd'::INET); = 22 (plus padding)
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