Re: AW: AW: [HACKERS] Re: atttypmod of 0
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at (Zeugswetter Andreas DBT)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-02-06T18:01:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > I guess I don't have a strong opinion on that. Since atttypmod is also > intended for > decimal and others, I think the default has to be type specific anyway, > like 0 digits after the comma for decimal. > I would prefer an atttypmod that does not include the VARHDRSZ for > varchar though. > Then it would simply be the max length (better for humans reading the > system catalog). > The default of zero would still be no problem I guess, since max zero > length is still nonsense. I indented to change it to -1 when we start using atttypmod for more types that just char() and varchar(). -- Bruce Momjian maillist@candle.pha.pa.us