Re: [HACKERS] wishlist: PQfsize

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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: E.Mergl@bawue.de (Edmund Mergl)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-15T23:26:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > We have a new atttypmod field that holds the length for the column as
> > defined at table-creation time for char() and varchar().  Is that the
> > number you want?
> > 
> > --
> > Bruce Momjian
> > maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
> 
> 
> for varchar() and also for the datatype text it would be
> nice to know the actual length. If this is not possible,
> then the length at creation time is still better than -1.

If you use binary cursors, you can use VARSIZE and VARDATA to see the
size and data for a string type.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us