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 seems to be a cstring (i.e. length 5 considering the
> trailing \0)
Yup. This is handled by this code:
else if (typlen == -2)
{
/* cstring */
result = strlen(DatumGetCString(value)) + 1;
}
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