Re: libpq - description of columns

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 09:26, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christian Gregoire <cgregoir99@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Using '\d TABLENAME', psql gives me
> >   character(15)
> > for a column, when libpq API PQfsize returns -1 for
> > the same column, whereas -1 should only indicate
> > fields with variable size (like TEXT i guess). Any
> > idea ?
> 
> Yes, char(N) is considered a variable-length type.  (Think about
> multibyte encodings to see why this must be so.)  psql is looking

So it is only to the "user" that pg says "char() is fixed-length"?

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