[fpc-pascal] TStringField.Size

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2025, Luca Olivetti via fpc-pascal wrote:

> El 14/7/25 a les 14:59, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal ha escrit:
>
>>> 
>>> That's not what the documentation says
>>> 
>>> https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/db/tstringfield.size.html 
>>> (emphasis mine)
>>> 
>>> "it is the declared *maximum* size of the string (in *characters*) and is 
>>> used to calculate the size of the dataset buffer."
>> 
>> Seems the documentation has not been updated for the unicode case :-(
>
> Well, even the "maximum" part isn't true, at least using the 
> TMSSQLConnection.

How so ? the size comes from what is reported by MSSQL.

Michael.