From: | "Vadim B(dot) Mikheev" <vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: varchar() troubles (fwd) |
Date: | 1998-01-18 08:30:11 |
Message-ID: | 34C1BD93.63D378BC@sable.krasnoyarsk.su |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> OK, we have a new pg_attribute column called 'atttypmod' for
> 'type-specific modifier'. Currently, it is only used to hold the char
> and varchar length, but I am sure will be used soon for other types.
Nice!
>
> Here is the test:
>
> test=> insert into test values ('asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfadsfasdf11',3);
> INSERT 18282 1
> test=> select * from test;
> x |y
> --------------------+-
> asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf|3
> (1 row)
>
> 'attlen' was certainly a confusing double-used field that I am glad to
> return to single-use status.
>
> I will be installing the patch soon, and will then start on subselects
> in the parser. It will probably take me until Monday to finish that.
Ok.
Vadim
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