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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2020-03-29 18:54:19 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2020-03-29 18:54:19 -0400
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Doc: correct misstatement about ltree label maximum length.
The documentation says that the max length is 255 bytes, but code inspection says it's actually 255 characters; and relevant lengths are stored as uint16 so that that works.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml4
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
index 0c74aa705e9..2d539f23fd8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
<para>
A <firstterm>label</firstterm> is a sequence of alphanumeric characters
and underscores (for example, in C locale the characters
- <literal>A-Za-z0-9_</literal> are allowed). Labels must be less than 256 bytes
- long.
+ <literal>A-Za-z0-9_</literal> are allowed).
+ Labels must be less than 256 characters long.
</para>
<para>