From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: hannu@trust.ee
Cc: daveh@insightdist.com
Cc: hannu@trust.ee
Cc: byronn@insightdist.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:16:36 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199804232117.RAA11218@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <353FA3F1.F5FC0996@sid.trust.ee>
> is this on client side or server side?
>
> Last time I checked (it was in 6.2 protocol) it was not sent to client.
>
> What I need is the defined max length of varchar (or char), not just
> actual length of each field of that type. This is used by Borlands BDE,
> and if this changes, depending on the where clause, it breaks BDE.
Can't you do:
select atttypmod from pg_attribute
where attrelid = 10003 and attname = 'col1';
That will give the length + 4 bytes.
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