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Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: atttypmod of 0

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at (Zeugswetter Andreas DBT)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-02-06T16:47:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> 
> Yes, I think to change atttypmod to default to -1 would be the right
> thing,
> since the empty string '' really has a length of 0,
> We could think of -1 as: We don't know how long this field will be.
> 0 would mean the field has 0 bytes.

Field has varlena == 4, so zero is not possible, but I could still
change to -1 for clarity.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us