| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] defalut value |
| Date: | 1999-05-12 15:30:00 |
| Message-ID: | 37399E78.7F8B76A3@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> I think somehow, somewhere, the size of the default value is getting
> used instead of the size of the field itself. Weird. Is it specific
> to char(n), perhaps? That might help explain how the bug got past
> the regression tests.
I'm pretty sure it is specific to char(n), and it is due to the 4 byte
difference in length between the string and the storage. When we fix
this one we will also fix the "c char(2) default ''" problem too.
In fact, I could have sworn I already had looked at it. Oh well.
- Tom
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California
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