VARHDRSZ

Started by Christopher Kings-Lynneover 22 years ago2 messageshackers

chriskl@familyhealth.com.au

over 22 years ago

Hi guys,

For formatting types pre-7.1, how do I know what the value of VARHDRSZ
is? (Given that it's a PHP script, say.)

I need to be able to subtract that from the typmod to get the field length.

Is it possible?

Chris

tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

over 22 years ago

In reply to: Christopher Kings-Lynne (#1)

Re: VARHDRSZ

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

For formatting types pre-7.1, how do I know what the value of VARHDRSZ
is? (Given that it's a PHP script, say.)

It's 4.

regards, tom lane