Hello,

I've been working on the following TODO list item:
  * psql \d on index with char()/varchar() fields shows improper length

I've attached a simple patch to fix this.

-Ryan

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
index e492b9163ca59d6e9fc23bb11773f3d72b427956..6fe28daf07f28443e9f2437be2b7416c10dd31e7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c,v 1.1 1999/02/24 17:28:58 momjian Exp $
+ *       $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c,v 1.2 1999/03/14 05:23:12 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -502,6 +502,9 @@ NormIndexAttrs(List *attList,       /* list of IndexElem's */
                        /* we just set the type name because that is all we need */
                        attribute->typename = makeNode(TypeName);
                        attribute->typename->name = nameout(&((Form_pg_type) GETSTRUCT(tuple))->typname);
+                       
+                       /* we all need the typmod for the char and varchar types. */
+                       attribute->typename->typmod = attform->atttypmod;
                }
 
                if (attribute->class == NULL)