George Armhold <armhold(at)cs(dot)rutgers(dot)edu> writes:
> Hmm, I seem to be getting negative values for tables that were created
> without a maximum char length. Is (was) it legal postgres syntax to
> say something like
> create table foo (mytext varchar);
> without a maximum length constraint?
It was and is, but it looks like 6.3.2's pg_dump did the wrong thing
with 'em. If you know that's how these fields were created, I'd say
that manually removing the (-5) from the table declarations is the
way to go.
regards, tom lane