Dann Corbit wrote: > > Oh, you have the length information for each datum all right. It's on > > the first four bytes of it. > > Sure, but when I bind to a grid, I need to know a-priori how big the > biggest returned instance can be. Reading the entire data set twice to > learn the size of a constant seems rather conceptually odd to me.
Did you read up on typmod already? I think that's part of the info sent down in the query response. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvherre/ "No single strategy is always right (Unless the boss says so)" (Larry Wall) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
