Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong

> > > There have been three ideas of what octet_length() sould return:
> > >       1) compressed on-disk storage length
> > >       2) byte length in server-side encoding
> > >       3) byte length in client-side encoding
> ...
> > > The open question is whether we should be doing #3.
> 
> There is no question in my mind that (3) must be the result of
> octet_length(). Any of the other options may give an interesting result,
> but of no practical use to a client trying to retrieve data. And
> everything is a client!

Added to TODO:
* Add octet_length_server() and octet_length_client() (Thomas, Tatsuo)

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