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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:12:38 +0200
From: Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>
Organization: FLEX Consulting Braila
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To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>,
	PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
CC: rdboer@hrs-rotterdam.nl, spider@chatswood.alphanet.net.au,
	Bugs for PostgreSQL <bugs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTIONS] Char types with ODBC and Access 97
References: <199803250141.UAA23263@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > I find it also very strange that pgaccess 0.84 is reporting a field size of
> > -5 for varchar type, and psql reports the correct size.
> 
> Yes, this looks like a bug in pgaccess when I ask for Object/Information
> on a table that contains a char().  Perhaps the author could look at
> psql.c to see how we handle these special cases in the \d command.  [I
> am CC'ing the pgaccess author on this.]

Yes. It's a bug.
I'm trying to find some time to fix it.

-- 
Constantin Teodorescu
FLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA