Re: Require suggestion for issue #8007

Hi Dave,

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 6:34 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 13:56, Pravesh Sharma <
> pravesh(dot)sharma(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi Hackers,
>>
>> We have been working on issue #8007
>> <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8007>. After our
>> analysis, we found that the length and scale of the argument's data type
>> are not stored in the database server, making it difficult to fetch. In the
>> debugger, pgAdmin typecasts the provided value to its data type when
>> calling the function, which is causing the issue.
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>> If we typecast the value to a character without specifying the length, it
>> is treated as a character (1) (character of length 1). For example, the
>> output of SELECT 'pgadmin', 'pgadmin'::character; is different.
>>
>> There are two solutions we can consider:
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>> 1. Do not typecast if the data type is character.
>> 2. Typecast to varchar when the data type is character.
>>
>> Please provide your suggestions which solution looks good to you.
>>
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> Why not include the length in the cast? We know what the input string is,
> so can't we just do the equivalent of:
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> 'pgadmin'::character(7);
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Just to confirm, this will be only for the character data type?

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