Bruce Momjian wrote:
Have you looked at the 8.1.X buildin function pg_column_size()?

Thanks Bruce for the lead.  I didn't know what to grep for; this helps.

The header comment for that function says

        "Return the size of a datum, possibly compressed"

I take it the uncompressed length is not available -- that this is as close as I'm going to get. I haven't traced through the function yet; maybe it does what I need. I'll look at this some more now that I have a starting point.

Thanks again!

mark

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