Quoting Bruce Momjian (maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us):
> I assume you are asking of attlen for char() and varchar() have the max
> length. The answer is now NO. They are varlena structures like text,
> and so have a attlen of -1. Atttypmod for that pg_attribute row now has
> the defined length.
>
Even for a char(4) field? ok, if attlen doesn't give the
length of a field, how do I find it?
Right now: yes, but I would like to see the char() type changed to a fixed length type (which it really is)
then it would have the length in attlen. Right now the length for char and varchar is in atttypmod.
Andreas