Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "unknown". This seems to be a cstring (i.e. length 5 considering the
> trailing \0)
Yeah. "unknown" used to have the same representation as "text", ie
varlena, but I changed it recently because I realized that the normal
thing we do with an "unknown"
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > What type are bare strings considered if they haven't been cast? I'm
> > curious as
> > to how the first case is of size 5, and how the last case is 301...
> >
> > decibel=# select pg_column_size('test');
> > 5
>
> "unknown". This se
Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> What type are bare strings considered if they haven't been cast? I'm curious
> as
> to how the first case is of size 5, and how the last case is 301...
>
> decibel=# select pg_column_size('test');
> 5
"unknown". This seems to be a cstring (i.e. length 5 consi
What type are bare strings considered if they haven't been cast? I'm curious as
to how the first case is of size 5, and how the last case is 301...
decibel=# select pg_column_size('test');
5
decibel=# select pg_column_size('test'::varchar);
8
decibel=# select pg_colum
