Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: atttypmod of 0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: AW: [HACKERS] Re: atttypmod of 0
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Msg-id 199802061647.LAA11003@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to AW: [HACKERS] Re: atttypmod of 0  (Zeugswetter Andreas DBT <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>)
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>
> Yes, I think to change atttypmod to default to -1 would be the right
> thing,
> since the empty string '' really has a length of 0,
> We could think of -1 as: We don't know how long this field will be.
> 0 would mean the field has 0 bytes.

Field has varlena == 4, so zero is not possible, but I could still
change to -1 for clarity.

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