"Larry McGhaw" <lmcghaw@connx.com> writes:
> The database *knows* this size of the char constant (obviously), and
> should report the size via a metadata call, as all other relational
> databases do.
I'm not even clear whether you and Dan are talking about the same thing. He's
talking about the number of bytes required hold the constant. You seem to be
talking about the character length of strings.
-- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
