Re: [HACKERS] attlen weirdness?

>
> Quoting Bruce Momjian (maillist@candle.pha.pa.us):
> >
> > pg_attribute.atttypmod.
> >
>     this field appears to be field size + 4
>         in a char(1024) field it returns 1028
>         in a char(10) it returns 14
>
>         is it padded?
>

Yes.  All varlena sizes store the VARHDRSZ, variable header size of 4,
in the length field.

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