Re: Selecting a constant question

"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:
> Giving me the information about the data type will be enough.  As an
> example, in this case we have varchar data.  If the server should be so
> kind as to report varchar(1) for '1' or varchar(3) for '123' then I
> would not have any difficulty binding the data to a grid.

This seems merest fantasy.  Reflect on multibyte character sets for a
bit --- even if it's known that the column is varchar(3) there is no
guarantee that the value will fit in 3 bytes.
        regards, tom lane