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commit    e4e07cca5a8a86bedcd874a6f674550407d35555
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Sun Mar 29 22:54:19 2020 +0000
First released in: 13.0, 9.5.22, 9.6.18, 10.13, 11.8, 12.3

    Doc: correct misstatement about ltree label maximum length.
    
    The documentation says that the max length is 255 bytes, but
    code inspection says it's actually 255 characters; and relevant
    lengths are stored as uint16 so that that works.


 doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
index 97dc8aa2d06..b399391da16 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
   <para>
    A <firstterm>label</firstterm> is a sequence of alphanumeric characters
    and underscores (for example, in C locale the characters
-   <literal>A-Za-z0-9_</> are allowed).  Labels must be less than 256 bytes
-   long.
+   <literal>A-Za-z0-9_</> are allowed).
+   Labels must be less than 256 characters long.
   </para>
 
   <para>


[parent: 2618ac6c6535]