[postgis-users] Length of Bigint, Double and Text fields

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> You've brought up some interesting points here. Can you actually clarify 
> these changes with regard to parts of the official shapefile spec, or 
> have they been found purely through experimentation?

Mark,

I would note that the shapefile specification is essentially silent on
the details of the .dbf file, apparently under the assumption that this is
a well known format from other sources and does not need to be specified.

Best regards,
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