OCTET_LENGTH (binary)
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The OCTET_LENGTH() function calculates the length of a given binary string in bytes.
SELECT octet_length(cast('hello' as bytea));
create.select(binaryOctetLength("hello".getBytes())).fetch();
The result being
+--------------+ | octet_length | +--------------+ | 5 | +--------------+
See OCTET_LENGTH for a text version of this function.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
binaryOctetLength("hello".getBytes())
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
octet_length(CAST(E'\\150\\145\\154\\154\\157' AS bytea))
Databricks
octet_length(X'68656C6C6F')
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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