On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 13:56, Pravesh Sharma <pravesh.sha...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi Hackers, > > We have been working on issue #8007 > <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8007>. After our > analysis, we found that the length and scale of the argument's data type > are not stored in the database server, making it difficult to fetch. In the > debugger, pgAdmin typecasts the provided value to its data type when > calling the function, which is causing the issue. > > If we typecast the value to a character without specifying the length, it > is treated as a character (1) (character of length 1). For example, the > output of SELECT 'pgadmin', 'pgadmin'::character; is different. > > There are two solutions we can consider: > > 1. Do not typecast if the data type is character. > 2. Typecast to varchar when the data type is character. > > Please provide your suggestions which solution looks good to you. > Why not include the length in the cast? We know what the input string is, so can't we just do the equivalent of: 'pgadmin'::character(7); -- Dave Page pgAdmin: https://www.pgadmin.org PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresql.org EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
