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Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: atttypmod of 0

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas DBT <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>, pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-02-07T01:54:51Z
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> > 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.

If it fixes problems, now is the time :)