Hello,
Varchar by default will truncate extra space at the end. If the table
column is defined as char or you cast the varchar to a char data type it
will have a fixed size of 40 characters.
Mike
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 06:29, Constantin Khatsckevich wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Can I get ordered length of the varchar field? I need it in PHP script.
>
> For example,
> CREATE TABLE t1
> (
> id int,
> str varchar(40)
> );
>
> PHP function pg_FieldSize() returns me -1 for field str, because this is
> variable length field, but I need got 40 (in the my example). May be
> like sizeof() ?????
>