On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:27:37 -0400 Benjamin Adams <freebsdwo...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking to do something like:
> 
> select month, mb_size(description) from data where year = 2012 group by month
> 
> I also am looking for raw size not compressed size.

octet_length() will give you the size in bytes.  It's not the size in
characters, though, unless the field is using an encoding that's always
1 byte per character.  For character length, use (obviously)
character_length().

-- 
Bill Moran <wmo...@potentialtech.com>

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