Hi list,
I'm trying to find out, from a client, how many characters will fit in a varchar field (http://pgfoundry.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1000286&group_id=1000085&atid=394). Problem is that when I do "PQfmod" on a varchar field defined as "varchar(20)", PQfmod returns "24".
Now, it's fairly easy for me to subtract 4 from each result I get from PQfmod, but I have a suspicion that this "4" is actually "pointer's length", which means that I need to detect a 64 bit server and subtract 8 instead.
1. Is this suspicion correct? 2. If so, how do I detect how much to subtract. 3. If not, what is the meaning of "4"?
Thanks,
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