firebird 2.1 ¿ char o varchar?

[JXJ]

hice mis pruebas de a 1000 en 1000

y con 8000
es lo maximo en caracteres que soporta.

Código SQL [-]
GRANDECADENA  VARCHAR(8000) CHARACTER SET UTF8 COLLATE UTF8,
  GRANDECADENA VARCHAR(8000) CHARACTER SET UTF8 COLLATE UTF8

como lo dice aqui

http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/mi...ata-types.html

Variable-length non-Unicode data with a maximum of 8,000 characters. Firebird can hold up to 32,765 characters. In 6.5, maximum was 255.