Strict mode sounds like an awesome idea. From time to time people release database schema linting scripts, those might help? They can't deprecate varchar and s

Strict mode sounds like an awesome idea. From time to time people release database schema linting scripts, those might help? They can't deprecate varchar and some other ill advised field types because they are required to comply with the SQL standard. The text thing, though, has never been a secret. Learning about it is sort of a coming of age ritual for postgres developers.