| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | hannu(at)trust(dot)ee (Hannu Krosing) |
| Cc: | daveh(at)insightdist(dot)com, hannu(at)trust(dot)ee, byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size |
| Date: | 1998-04-23 21:16:36 |
| Message-ID: | 199804232117.RAA11218@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> is this on client side or server side?
>
> Last time I checked (it was in 6.2 protocol) it was not sent to client.
>
> What I need is the defined max length of varchar (or char), not just
> actual length of each field of that type. This is used by Borlands BDE,
> and if this changes, depending on the where clause, it breaks BDE.
Can't you do:
select atttypmod from pg_attribute
where attrelid = 10003 and attname = 'col1';
That will give the length + 4 bytes.
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