From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199804232117.RAA11218@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size
To: hannu@trust.ee (Hannu Krosing)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:16:36 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: daveh@insightdist.com, hannu@trust.ee, byronn@insightdist.com,
	pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <353FA3F1.F5FC0996@sid.trust.ee> from "Hannu Krosing" at Apr 23,
	98 11:26:25 pm
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> 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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