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Re: Selecting a constant question

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>

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From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: Dann Corbit <DCorbit@connx.com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-06-11T20:04:04Z
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:55:55PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
> The issue is this:
> 
> Postgres describes the column with a typmod of -1 (unknown) and a length
> of 65534.

Postgres does no such thing. How can it possibly know the maximum size
of a column before executing the query?

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.