Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>>>>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!
>>
>
>Also added to TODO:
>
>    * Make octet_length_client the same as octet_length() 
>
Will this break backward compatibility ?

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Hannu