Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:34:56PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Summary:
>
> 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

Very nice is possibility of choice... What add everything:

octet_length_storage()
octet_length_server()
octet_length_client()

and problem of right choice put to user. And the standard
octet_length() make as alias to 1) or 2) or 3) -- depend
on result of this discussion.

> The open question is whether we should be doing #3. If you want to use
> octet_length to allocate space on the client side, #3 is really the

If Tom needs be sure, he can uses octet_length_client().

> proper value, as Tom has argued. Tatsuo is happy with #2.

...and Tatsuo can uses octet_length_server(). The important thing
is that both will still happy :-)

Karel

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