mysql_field_len () function and more for postgres ...
problems ...
* pg_field_prtlen ... gives the actual size of the field back (it shows the count of the content allready inside the field - not the possible max-len)
* pg_filed_size ... can't be used for varchar or bpchar fields 
...but there is a way to get the real-max-length of a field in postgreSQL via the system tables:
//returns an array with infos of every field in the table (name, type, length, size)
function SQLConstructFieldsInfo($TABLE, $DBCON)
{
    $s="SELECT a.attname AS name, t.typname AS type, a.attlen AS size, a.atttypmod AS len, a.attstorage AS i 
    FROM pg_attribute a , pg_class c, pg_type t 
    WHERE c.relname = '$TABLE'  
    AND a.attrelid = c.oid AND a.atttypid = t.oid";
    
    if ($r = pg_query($DBCON,$s))
    {
        $i=0;
        while ($q = pg_fetch_assoc($r))
        {
               $a[$i]["type"]=$q["type"];
               $a[$i]["name"]=$q["name"];
               if($q["len"]<0 && $q["i"]!="x")
               {
                   // in case of digits if needed ... (+1 for negative values)
                   $a[$i]["len"]=(strlen(pow(2,($q["size"]*8)))+1);
               }
               else
               {
                   $a[$i]["len"]=$q["len"];
               }
               $a[$i]["size"]=$q["size"];
            $i++;            
        }
        return $a;
    }
    return null;
}
// usage
$DBCON=pg_connect("host=YOUR-HOST port=YOUR-PORT dbname=YOUR-DB user=YOUR-USER password=YOUR-PASS");
$TABLE="YOUR-TABLENAME";
$RET=SQLConstructFieldsInfo($TABLE, $DBCON);
$j = count($RET);
for ($i=0; $i < $j; $i++)
{
    echo "<br>$i name=".$RET[$i]["name"]." type=".$RET[$i]["type"]." length=".$RET[$i]["len"]." size=".$RET[$i]["size"]." bytes";
}