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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-07-06 19:02:54 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-07-06 19:02:54 +0000
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Add pg_column_size() to return storage size of a column, including
possible compression. Mark Kirkwood
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index d837219421e..4ff434aca87 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.262 2005/06/29 01:52:56 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.263 2005/07/06 19:02:52 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -2187,6 +2187,14 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><literal><function>pg_column_size</function>(<parameter>string</parameter>)</literal></entry>
+ <entry><type>integer</type></entry>
+ <entry>Number of bytes required to store the value, which might be compressed</entry>
+ <entry><literal>pg_column_size('jo\\000se'::bytea)</literal></entry>
+ <entry><literal>5</literal></entry>
+ </row>
+
+ <row>
<entry><literal><function>position</function>(<parameter>substring</parameter> in <parameter>string</parameter>)</literal></entry>
<entry><type>integer</type></entry>
<entry>Location of specified substring</entry>