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I couldn't find the answer to this on here so sorry if repeated. I'm looking to query a table to find the longest record in characters for each column in a specific table.

I have a table which is built of fields which are type: varchar and length:254

In certain cases, I know for a fact that the longest record is a single character so the problem is when exporting to shapefiles the .dbf file is over 1gb when not needed.

If someone can also help with a script to reduce the lengths of each column as well that would be great!

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  • Shortening the metadata type restriction will however not use less space.
    – eckes
    Commented Jul 20, 2019 at 2:39

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The below worked for what I needed:

SELECT
        MAX(char_length(column1)) as column1,
        MAX(char_length(column2)) as column2
FROM
        schema.table
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