From: <gh...@gh...> - 2003-08-13 14:51:00
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Cc-ing pypgsql-users, let's please keep the discussion there :) Dick Kniep wrote: > Hi Gerhard, > >>Do you mean the displaysize field of cursor.description? > > Yes > >>In newer pyPgSQL releases this is indeed always set to None, because PostgreSQL >>versions 7.3 and later provide no means of getting at this information >>any more. > > Why is this? Is there a rationale for this? Dunno. You could check the PostgreSQL archives. I personally never found this attribute useful. > I thought it was pretty handy to have these values available? Are you really having problems with the 'display_size' field? Qutoing the DB-API spec (PEP 0249): """ .description This read-only attribute is a sequence of 7-item sequences. Each of these sequences contains information describing one result column: (name, type_code, display_size, internal_size, precision, scale, null_ok). The first two items (name and type_code) are mandatory, the other five are optional and must be set to None if meaningfull values are not provided. """ > Is there an alternative to get these values? For display_size, no. If a different field doesn't work as expected, we need to know which one it is. -- Gerhard |