"Huaxin WANG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When locale is set to multibyte char encoding languages,
> such as ja_JP.eucjp, and char encoding set to EUC_JP, for the char(20)
> columns (attributes), the libpq ((PGresult *)res)->attDescs[0].atttypmod
> returned by PQfmod(res, 0) is not correct. It's neither 20, nor 20+4 as
> reported in the hackers' mail list [1], but something varying (which I
> failed
> to figure out). In my specific case, it's 25.
I don't think so. A column declared as char(N) *will* have an atttypmod
of N+4. The actual physical length in bytes of a column entry might
be more, though, since we measure N in terms of characters not bytes.
regards, tom lane
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