Re: length coerce for bpchar is broken since 7.0

> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > I'm going to fix the problem by changing bpcharin() rather than
> > changing exprTypmod(). Surely we could fix the problem by changing
> > exprTypmod() for INSERT, however, we could not fix the similar problem
> > for COPY FROM in the same way. Changing bpcharin() would solve
> > problems of both INSERT and COPY FROM. So bpcharin() seems more
> > appropreate place to fix both problems.
>
> bpcharin() will most definitely NOT fix the problem, because it often
> will not know the target column's typmod, if indeed there is an
> identifiable target column at all.

Can you give me any example for this case?

> I agree that it's a good solution
> for COPY FROM, but you need to fix exprTypmod() too.

Anyway, I'm gotoing to fix exprTypmod() also.
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Tatsuo Ishii