We hyphenate "fixed-length" earlier in the same sentence, and overall we
more often use "variable-length" rather than "variable length".
Nikolay Shaplov
<replaceable class="parameter">internallength</replaceable>.
Base data types can be fixed-length, in which case
<replaceable class="parameter">internallength</replaceable> is a
- positive integer, or variable length, indicated by setting
+ positive integer, or variable-length, indicated by setting
<replaceable class="parameter">internallength</replaceable>
to <literal>VARIABLE</literal>. (Internally, this is represented
by setting <literal>typlen</> to -1.) The internal representation of all