Re: Array Char/VarChar Size - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: Array Char/VarChar Size
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.64.0802291248520.30295@leary.csoft.net
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In response to Re: Array Char/VarChar Size  (dmp <danap@ttc-cmc.net>)
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, dmp wrote:

> Perhaps this is not the appropriate list, but is there a way to
> determine this information from the information_schema? The reason I ask
> is I can not seem to find this information there either. pg_dump does
> provide this information, though lacking the ability to proper identify
> multi-dimensional arrays, ex. char(30)[][] gives char(30)[].

Multi-dimensional array information is not stored.  Every array type may
be any number of dimensions.  The precision information is not available
in the information_schema, but it is available in the system catalog
tables.  See pg_attribute.atttypmod, but it does require some decoding.

Kris Jurka


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