RE: Need some help: attlen is pg_attributes gives a negat ive value.. .

I just answered my own question. atttypmod now holds this value.

thanks,
Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Klein, Robert [mailto:rvklein(at)ober(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 4:27 PM
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [BUGS] Need some help: attlen is pg_attributes gives a negative
value.. .

I have a table defined as:

create table contacts (
c_name char (20),
c_title char (30),
c_phone char (13),
c_ext char (5),
c_email char (60),
c_sort char (5)
);

when I query the catalog to get the field length for auto generating HTML
forms I get:

attnum|attname|typname|attlen
------+-------+-------+------
1|c_name |bpchar | -1
2|c_title|bpchar | -1
3|c_phone|bpchar | -1
4|c_ext |bpchar | -1
5|c_email|bpchar | -1
6|c_sort |bpchar | -1
(6 rows)

I know in previous versions the length as defined in the create table
statement was given. Any ideas?

Rob