<![CDATA[Timescale DB Warnings on new install]]>recently moved my netxms install to a new server and received the following when initializing the db 

WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "idata_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "raw_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "idata_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "raw_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "idata_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "raw_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "idata_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "raw_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "idata_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "raw_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "idata_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "raw_value" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "event_message" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "event_tags" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "notification_channel" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "recipient" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "subject" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "message" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "action_name" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "channel_name" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "recipient" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "subject" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "action_data" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "hostname" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "msg_tag" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "ip_addr" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "trap_oid" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "log_name" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "event_source" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.
WARNING:  column type "character varying" used for "message" does not follow best practices
HINT:  Use datatype TEXT instead.

Everything initialized ok but just thought this was strange.

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