>
> Quoting Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us):
> >
> > pg_attribute.atttypmod.
> >
> this field appears to be field size + 4
> in a char(1024) field it returns 1028
> in a char(10) it returns 14
>
> is it padded?
>
Yes. All varlena sizes store the VARHDRSZ, variable header size of 4,
in the length field.
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