Re: Best way to calculate row size with pg_getline?

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> I'm trying to determine the best value to use with pg_getline for the
> "size" value. The docs say:
>
> "The second argument is the size of the variable: this should be greater
> than the expected size of the row. "
>
> I have a table with many columns including several "text" fields. I'm
> not sure how to calculate a row size that would be good to use here.
> Suggestions?
>
> I'm hoping there might be an "auto" option, which would just calculate
> the length of the row as it passes through, and raise the value if needed.
>
> I'm used to the land of Perl, where it generally doesn't care how big my
> content is before I stuff into a variable.
>
>   


Why are we using these deprecated libpq calls instead of the modern 
calls, which have been available since pg 7.4?

cheers

andrew