Re: [HACKERS] attlen weirdness?

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: julie(at)hub(dot)org (Julia A(dot)Case)
Cc: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, julie(at)hub(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] attlen weirdness?
Date: 1998-03-11 14:41:07
Message-ID: 199803111441.JAA16562@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Quoting The Hermit Hacker (scrappy(at)hub(dot)org):
> >
> > Bruce? Guys? Any word on this one? I *thought* I remembered reading
> > soething about the 'attlen' becoming -1, but just checked the mailing list
> > archives and couldn't find anything :(
> >
>
> It appears as if atttypmod now has the field length + 4 ???

I am the atttypmod guy, but there is not enough context to answer this
question.

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