Re: Require suggestion for issue #8007

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 13:56, Pravesh Sharma <pravesh(dot)sharma(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> 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.
>

Why not include the length in the cast? We know what the input string is,
so can't we just do the equivalent of:

'pgadmin'::character(7);

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