Re: Selecting a constant question - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Selecting a constant question
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Msg-id 20070611200404.GD25296@svana.org
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In response to Re: Selecting a constant question  ("Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:55:55PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
> The issue is this:
>
> Postgres describes the column with a typmod of -1 (unknown) and a length
> of 65534.

Postgres does no such thing. How can it possibly know the maximum size
of a column before executing the query?

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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