Re: AW: AW: [HACKERS] attlen weirdness?

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> > 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.
> >
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> 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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> I am starting to see the problem, only atttypmod is passed around not attlen.
> Therefore even if we do this, the char() length of a column still has to be in atttypmod.
> So it will stay the same for Julie, whether it is taken out or not. But since it is really
> hard for a generic application like ODBC, maybe we could change atttypmod to not
> include the VARHDRSZ, most of the time it is needed without VARHDRSZ anyway ?
> I am starting to think that this would be more important than to remove the 4 bytes.

Those four bytes have always been there. Check psql or pg_dump. See
them subtracting VARHDRSZ all the time.

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