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Subject: Re: column max length / max timestamps from system tables
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> On Jun 2, 2021, at 2:00 PM, <dave@davebolt.co.uk> =
<dave@davebolt.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> For the other column I=E2=80=99m guessing more work has to be done =
finding the length for each row. Maybe maintaining a column containing =
the current length for each row would help?

or a functional index