Re: AW: [HACKERS] attlen weirdness?

>
> Quoting Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us):
> > I assume you are asking of attlen for char() and varchar() have the max
> > length.  The answer is now NO.  They are varlena structures like text,
> > and so have a attlen of -1.  Atttypmod for that pg_attribute row now has
> > the defined length.
> >
>
>     Even for a char(4) field?  ok, if attlen doesn't give the
> length of a field, how do I find it?
>
> Right now: yes, but I would like to see the char() type changed to a fixed length type (which it really is)
> then it would have the length in attlen. Right now the length for char and varchar is in atttypmod.
>

Again, we can do this, but we then have to have atttypmod available in
all places where we check for length.  I will add it to the TODO list.

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