R: Fault when return strings over 256 characters in PLpgSQL

It could be a pgAdmin III presentation fault.
I'm using PostgreSQL 8.0.0 on Windows 2k and I've got the same problem
but only when inquiring via pgAdmin, using psql from command line all
goes ok. I think that the resulting string are correct, that's why the
function "position(\'.\' in userName);" doesn't find the dot.

Matteo Brusamolin


cathy.hemsley@powerconv.alstom.com wrote:
> I have a PLpgSQL function that returns a string (varchar):  if this
> string
> is over 256 characters long then the last three characters are
corrupted:
> replaced by the string ' (.'

I'm skeptical: there is nothing special about 256 characters as far as
the varchar implementation is concerned, nor is the string ' (.' of any
significance.

Running your function (albeit on Linux) yields:

neilc=# select testconverttousername();

                                                 testconverttousername


------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------

123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678
123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678
123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678
123456781234567812345678123456781234567888
(1 row)

i.e. what one would expect.

-Neil

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