Re: BUG #3428: plperl spi_exec_prepared char length always unity

Matt Taylor <matt(at)lindenelevator(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 00:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> IIRC, "char" means "char(1)" by default, so I'm unconvinced that this
>> behavior is a bug.

> Since 'character' is not accepted as a valid type by spi_prepare, is
> this bug a duplicate of BUG #2917? Maybe I am just doing this wrong,
> the documentation is sparse.

Oh, duh, I should have thought harder. Yeah, in 8.2 you will get the
internal 1-byte-char datatype, not bpchar which is what spi_prepare
will interpret this as meaning in 8.3 and beyond.

I'd suggest using "bpchar", or maybe better "varchar" (do you actually
want fixed-width char type??) for the time being.

regards, tom lane