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