Re: Inconsistent error message for varchar(n)

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Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> Oh! I didn't consider this situation. Since the max size of varchar cannot
> exceed 10485760, however, I cannot find this in documentation [1]. Is there
> something I missed? Should we mention this in the documentation?
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/datatype-character.html

I dunno, that section doesn't really get into implementation limits.
For comparison, it doesn't bring up the point that string values are
constrained to 1GB; that's dealt with elsewhere. Since the limit on
typmod is substantially more than that, I'm not sure there's much point
in mentioning it specifically. Maybe there's a case for mentioning the
1GB limit here, though.

regards, tom lane