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Enterprise Postgres 17 SP1 Application Development Guide

6.4.1 Support for National Character Data Types

This section describes how to use the national character data types using the SQL embedded C preprocessor.

The following explains the C language variable types corresponding to the NCHAR type:

Specify the number of characters specified for the NCHAR type multiple by 4, plus 1 for the length of the host variable.

Data Type

Host variable type

NATIONAL CHARACTER(n)

NCHAR variable name [nx4+1]

NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(n)

NVARCHAR variable name [nx4+1]

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Refer to "Handling Character Strings" in "Client Interfaces" in the PostgreSQL documentation for information on using character string types.