We have a number of varchar fields and I'm looking to see what the greatest data length in any is, after UTF-8 encoding. The two-argument length function appears (I think) to take a byte array, so it's the opposite of what I'm looking for (give it a UTF-8 encoded string and the second parameter 'UTF-8' and it'll count characters). The octet_length function, though, doesn't accept an encoding argument. What does it use? ChrisA -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general