Re: Enums documentation "glitch"

On Jul 29, 2012, at 14:56, Edson Richter <edsonrichter(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Resending, sent with wrong sender at first (sorry, I'll be more careful before sending with wrong e-mail address)...
>
> Em 29/07/2012 15:48, Edson Richter escreveu:
>> In "CREATE TYPE" documentation, we see the following paragraph:
>>
>> "Enumerated Types
>> The second form of CREATE TYPE creates an enumerated (enum) type, as described in Section 8.7. Enum types take a list of one or more quoted labels, each of which must be less than NAMEDATALEN bytes long (64 in a standard PostgreSQL build)."
>>
>> In section 8.7 we find a conflicting statement (ok, is just 1 character, but still):
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>> "8.7.4. Implementation Details
>> An enum value occupies four bytes on disk. The length of an enum value's textual label is limited by the NAMEDATALEN setting compiled into PostgreSQL; in standard builds this means at most 63 bytes."
>>
>>
>> What is the correct one: 63 or 64 bytes?
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> Regards,
>
>

Technically "...less than 64..." is the same as "...at most 63..."

But the different wording is confusing...

David J.