Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong

> > There have been three ideas of what octet_length() sould return:
> >       1) compressed on-disk storage length
> >       2) byte length in server-side encoding
> >       3) byte length in client-side encoding
...
> > The open question is whether we should be doing #3.

There is no question in my mind that (3) must be the result of
octet_length(). Any of the other options may give an interesting result,
but of no practical use to a client trying to retrieve data. And
everything is a client!
                      - Thomas