Let D be a domain bounded by a Jordan curve. For 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, let Lp(D) be the class of all functions f holomorphic in D such that where A is the area of D. For f ∈Lp(D), setπn consists of all polynomials of degree at most n. Recently, Andre Giroux (J. Approx. Theory 28 (1980), 45–53) has obtained necessary and sufficient conditions, in terms of the rate of decrease of the approximation error , such that has an analytic continuation as an entire function having finite order and finite type. In the present paper we have considered the approximation error (*) on a Carathéodory domain and have extended the results of Giroux for the case 1 ≤ p < 2.