Storage Sizes

The storage size of character data, given column definition size and input data size.

Storage Size of Character Data
Data type	Column definition	Input data	Storage
`CHARACTER`, `CHAR`	width of (32K – 1) bytes	(32K – 1) bytes	(32K – 1) bytes
`VARCHAR`, `CHARACTER VARYING`	width of (32K – 1) bytes	(32K – 1) bytes	(32K – 1) bytes