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" literal is feed it to some datatype's input converter. Making it the same as cstring saves a conversion step. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq