Re: [doc] modifying unit from characters to bytes

> On 8 Jul 2020, at 10:05, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 2020/07/08 16:17, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 8 Jul 2020, at 04:25, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2020/07/08 10:54, torikoshia wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> The manual describes the size of pg_stat_activity.query
>>>> as below:
>>>> | By default the query text is truncated at 1024 characters;
>>>> When considering multibyte characters, it seems more
>>>> accurate to change the unit from "characters" to "bytes".
>>>
>>> Agreed. Barring any objection, I will commit this patch.
>> +1 to commit this patch, following the link to track_activity_query_size it's
>> even specified to be bytes there. IIRC the NULL terminator is also included in
>> the 1024 bytes which prevents it from being 1024 characters even for
>> non-multibyte.
>
> Yes, so we should document "truncated at 1023 bytes" for accuracy, instead?
> This might be more confusing for users, though....

I think that's overcomplicating things, since we do (will) specify bytes and
not characters.

cheers ./daniel