| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org (Brett McCormick) |
| Cc: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, dg(at)illustra(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] casting & type comments |
| Date: | 1998-03-14 06:08:38 |
| Message-ID: | 199803140608.BAA03862@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Sorry, I meant at table creation time.. What are the implications of
> atttypmod in any case? it is just a general purpose number to attach
> to attributes (for precision etc), correct?
>
It is passed to all input and output functions for each type as the
third argument. You can see its use in char() and varchar().
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