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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Sergei Katkovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BPCHAR description in 8.3. Character Types is misleading and incomplete
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:22:50 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <CAAf8JyKpZY+bWLmyP-hR+sQiR0yS+nDTrdqaQbWgrf6uxsXYoQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2025-10-20 at 16:42 +0400, Sergei Katkovsky wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM Laurenz Albe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > But perhaps it is really better to leave things as they are now, perhaps
> > replacing "blank-trimming", perhaps as "variable-length string that ignores
> > training blanks".
> 
> Looks like nobody is against "insignificant/ignorable trailing
> whitespace" or anything like that anymore? Am I right?

Any verbal description will never completely represent the facts.
But I'd say that "ignores trailing blanks" (not tabs, for example)
is a fairly accurate description.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe





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