Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] impossible insert data into VARCHAR

>
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > > [... quoting level exceeded ...]
> >
> > ARRRRG - then next problem with VARSIZE - damn thing.
> >
> > This time it's during the parser (gdb told me). varcharin()
> > is called with a atttypmod of 0 causing a palloc() of 0
> > bytes. How should a VARCHAR type whithout a specified length
> > behave? Is this type 1 character or a variable size up to
> > 4096?
>
> It should allow any length (up to the implementation maximum of 4096). The usage is not defined for SQL92,
> unlike the case for "char" with no explicit size which defaults to one.
>

Could be hacked into varcharin(). If the test on atttypmod is
changed from "!= -1" into "> 0" it works that way. Don't
have the time right now to run a regression test, but some
typed queries with

select into t values ...

and

select into t select ...

worked O.K.

Until later, Jan

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