Re: Bug: attributes dynamically filled (e.g. xml) truncated

Hi,

(2013/03/18 17:12), Ben Morgan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have found what I think might be a bug. I am using the ODBC driver
> in conjunction with AnySQL. After submitting this bug report to them,
> they said they think that it is a problem with the driver, because “it
> just displays values returned by the driver.” So here we go! :-)
>
> The text type in PostgreSQL is of unlimited length. When accessing a
> view in PostgreSQL, some of the attributes contain data generated
> dynamically that is longer than 255 characters, but it would seem that
> the driver truncates this to 255 characters.

Please try to turn on the *Text as LongVarChar* option.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

> Steps to reproduce:
>
> drop view if exists "public"."too_short_view";
>
> drop table if exists "public"."too_short";
>
> create table "public"."too_short" (id serial primary key, name text not null);
>
> insert into "public"."too_short" (name) values ('
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc
> tempor risus sit amet nibh venenatis sit amet vehicula augue
> suscipit. Vivamus augue magna, lacinia vel dapibus nec,
> tincidunt quis eros. Duis vehicula hendrerit dui, ut cursus ligula volutpat.
> This is now at least 255 characters long, but this part will be truncated.');
>
> create view "public"."too_short_view" as select id, xmlelement(name
> xml, name) from "public"."too_short";
>
> select * from "public"."too_short_view";
>
> Thanks for your time!
> Ben