Dann Corbit wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since libpq function PQfsize returns -2 for all constant character
strings in SQL statements ... What is the proper procedure to determine
the length of a constant character column after query execution but
before fetching the first row of data?
Why not just get the first row and determine the width from it before
you actually use any of tha data ?
What if the second row is 1000x longer?
Thats exactly the point. Consider
select mytext from mytable ;
How can PostgreSQL possibly know the maximum length
of the returned values *before* it has scanned the
whole table?
greetings, Florian Pflug
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