John Wells wrote: > On 12/4/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are no field separators. Perhaps you could extract some useful > > info with pg_filedump, which you can grab at > > http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb > > So is it simply field width? Can one count the number of bytes based > on native datatype length and determine field start/end?
Yes. For variable length types, there is a 4-byte length word at the start of the field (unless you are using 8.3 which introduces more compact representations in some cases). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvherre/ "If it wasn't for my companion, I believe I'd be having the time of my life" (John Dunbar) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
