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| author | Bruce Momjian | 2022-08-31 23:43:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 2022-08-31 23:43:06 +0000 |
| commit | e0d0c87a4c717ff9e47d7b7e5a25071e46090eba (patch) | |
| tree | 4aabaca90040791d9437dccfb459f93d844422c2 /doc/src | |
| parent | 258c1af3a3f8d64bbb5c3d8a7528849fd08165d7 (diff) | |
doc: document the maximum char/varchar length value
Reported-by: Japin Li
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669B13E98AE531617CB1386B6979@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Backpatch-through: 10
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index 60b0e67c6ee..bc48006505e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1098,6 +1098,8 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8; <type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> are aliases for <type>character varying(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type> and <type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type>, respectively. + If specified, the length must be greater than zero and cannot exceed + 10485760. <type>character</type> without length specifier is equivalent to <type>character(1)</type>. If <type>character varying</type> is used without length specifier, the type accepts strings of any size. The |