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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: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development)
Cc: Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at
Date: 1998-02-07T06:09:22Z
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.

OK, atttypmod now defaults to -1.   Initdb everyone.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us