Re: [GENERAL] confused on maximum characters

2001-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Looking at the docs Peter Eisentraut added this note at the bottom of the >documentation for character data. > --- > The maximum value for "n" is 2147483648. The longest possible string is actually >only about 1 GB, though. The storage size of "(4+n)" is actually inc

[GENERAL] confused on maximum characters

2001-08-16 Thread roypgsqlgen
Hey guys, I'm a little confused by the documentation on varchar data type in postgresql. Looking at the docs Peter Eisentraut added this note at the bottom of the documentation for character data. --- The maximum value for "n" is 2147483648. The longest possible string is actually only about 1