"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
> Giving me the information about the data type will be enough. As an
> example, in this case we have varchar data. If the server should be so
> kind as to report varchar(1) for '1' or varchar(3) for '123' then I
> would not have any difficulty binding the data to a grid.
This seems merest fantasy. Reflect on multibyte character sets for a
bit --- even if it's known that the column is varchar(3) there is no
guarantee that the value will fit in 3 bytes.
regards, tom lane