| | pg_field_size    (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5) pg_field_size -- 
   Returns the internal storage size of the named field
  Descriptionint pg_field_size  ( resource result, int field_number ) 
   pg_field_size() returns the internal storage
   size (in bytes) of the field number in the given PostgreSQL
   result.
   Note: 
    This function used to be called pg_fieldsize().
   
Return Values
   The internal field storage size (in bytes).  -1 indicates a variable
   length field.  FALSE is returned on error.
  Examples
    | Example 1. Getting information about fields | 
<?php$dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=publisher") or die("Could not connect");
 
 $res = pg_query($dbconn, "select * from authors where author = 'Orwell'");
 $i = pg_num_fields($res);
 for ($j = 0; $j < $i; $j++) {
 echo "column $j\n";
 $fieldname = pg_field_name($res, $j);
 echo "fieldname: $fieldname\n";
 echo "printed length: " . pg_field_prtlen($res, $fieldname) . " characters\n";
 echo "storage length: " . pg_field_size($res, $j) . " bytes\n";
 echo "field type: " . pg_field_type($res, $j) . " \n\n";
 }
 ?>
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 The above example will output: | column 0
fieldname: author
printed length: 6 characters
storage length: -1 bytes
field type: varchar 
column 1
fieldname: year
printed length: 4 characters
storage length: 2 bytes
field type: int2 
column 2
fieldname: title
printed length: 24 characters
storage length: -1 bytes
field type: varchar | 
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