Re: [HACKERS] attlen weirdness?

Bruce?  Guys?  Any word on this one?  I *thought* I remembered reading
soething about the 'attlen' becoming -1, but just checked the mailing list
archives and couldn't find anything :(

Thanks...

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Julia A.Case wrote:

> I am using the following info to migrate a table from 6.2.1 to 6.3
> 
> \connect template1 
> drop database magecal;
> create database magecal;
> \connect magecal 
> \connect - julie
> CREATE TABLE dates (id int4, date char(10), news char(1024)) archive = none;
> COPY dates FROM stdin;
> 1	1998Jan16	<H3>Calendar Created</H3>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          !
> !
> !
>                                              
> \.
> CREATE  INDEX dates_indx on dates using btree ( id int4_ops, date bpchar_ops );
> 
> 
> now if I connect to the database and do
> 
> select attlen from pg_attribute where attname='news';
> 
> I get
> -1
> 
> This doesn't seem quite right.
> 
> Julie
> 
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