Thanks for the answers guys,
I ran a quick query lastnight select length(data) from pg_largeobject
where loid = xxxx which prompted my post.
The query returned 'n' rows of 2048 bytes and an incomplete "page" of say
236, as I wasn't really thinking about it that much I assumed for some
reason that the data column was limited to a maximum of 2048 bytes by the
database. I was hoping to select this value (2048) from a query
(like \d tablename describes the columns and sizes) to build a buffer
either a) large enough or b) sensibly proportioned.
Although my question may not be relevant to this particular issue there
are times that I would like to now the size of a particular column, and I
believe
that it's possible to get this value from the database using a query and
pg_catalog etc, just not sure how to achieve this.
Thanks again,
Brett
"Brett Maton" <brett.maton@itaccounting.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi NG,
>
> How do I find out the size of a column ?
>
> I am retrieving large objects from the pg_largeobject table and creating
a
> files, I would like to know the length of the data column so that I can
> implement buffering instead of writing hundreds of small chunks to disk.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Brett
>
>