"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Giving me the information about the data type will be enough. As an > example, in this case we have varchar data. If the server should be so > kind as to report varchar(1) for '1' or varchar(3) for '123' then I > would not have any difficulty binding the data to a grid.
This seems merest fantasy. Reflect on multibyte character sets for a bit --- even if it's known that the column is varchar(3) there is no guarantee that the value will fit in 3 bytes. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate