| From: | "Julia A(dot)Case" <julie(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Julia A(dot)Case" <julie(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] attlen weirdness? |
| Date: | 1998-03-11 10:16:05 |
| Message-ID: | 19980311101605.36729@MageNet.com |
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Quoting Bruce Momjian (maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us):
> I assume you are asking of attlen for char() and varchar() have the max
> length. The answer is now NO. They are varlena structures like text,
> and so have a attlen of -1. Atttypmod for that pg_attribute row now has
> the defined length.
>
Even for a char(4) field? ok, if attlen doesn't give the
length of a field, how do I find it?
Julie
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