Re: 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: 1998-02-06T19:12:47Z

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.

Do people want atttypmod at -1 at this time?  It will require a
dump/reload.


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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us