From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199804231636.MAA26069@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] retrieving varchar size
To: byronn@insightdist.com (Byron Nikolaidis)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:36:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
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	Apr 23, 98 10:45:55 am
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if it would be possible, in the Postgres backend, to
> send back the defined column size for the varchar data type (and
> possibly the char() type, i.e., bpchar) on a query?  Currently, it just
> sends back -1 for the size, which makes it difficult in the frontend
> (i.e., odbc driver) to determine what the size of the column is.
> 

This is kind of tough to do.

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