Re: pyPgSQL/Quixote data cursor browse form

Benjamin Scherrey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.pypgsql.user
Organization Proteus Technologies, Inc.
Message-ID <HBDCRM6Z2FHCUP43TSZWE042KHYTJG.3eac6fd3@bonzoii>
Ah... thanx Bill. Now I'm trying to figure out how to identify that it's a numeric type from the 
description. I know the right field to compare (description[1]), just not how to make the 
comparison... hazzards of weak-typed languages I guess. I know this is gonna be one of those 
stupidly easy things...
	
	best regards,

		Ben Scherrey

4/27/2003 7:48:42 PM, "Billy G. Allie" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Ben,
>
>The [intrnal] size of an integer is always 4 bytes for an integer (a 32 
>bit value).  The display size for an Integer can be up to 10 
>charachters, but PostgreSQL no longer returns the display size.  Other 
>numberic fields (float, int8, int2) will have fixed sizes representing 
>the number of bytes used to store the value internally in the database.
>
>I hope this clears up the issue.





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