Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > octet_length is invaluable and almost has to return
> > non-compress bytes because uncompressed is that the client sees.                                              ^^^^
                                           what
 

> What about encoding?

Single-byte encodings have the same character and byte lengths.  Only
multi-byte encodings are different, right?

In thinking about it, I think the function is called octet_length()
to emphasize is returns the length in octets (bytes) rather than the
length in characters.

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