From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: NAME maximum length in _bytes_
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 18:45:37 -0400
Message-ID: <20120510224537.GE16881@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120508211345.GK16882@momjian.us>
References: <20120508211345.GK16882@momjian.us>
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:13:45PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> psql \dTS+ shows for data type 'name':
>
> pg_catalog | name | name | 64 | |
> | 63-character type for storing system identifiers
>
> I believe this is really 63 bytes, not characters. I also see it
> mismatched in our docs:
>
> in the internal system catalogs and is not intended for use by the general user. Its
> length is currently defined as 64 bytes (63 usable characters plus
> ----------
> terminator) but should be referenced using the constant
> <symbol>NAMEDATALEN</symbol> in <literal>C</> source code.
>
> Should I fix this?
Fix applied; no catalog bump.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
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