From: Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Taral <taral@cyberjunkie.com>
Cc: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] (libpq question) Holy cow, what's all this fluff?!
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 04:30:40 +0000
Message-ID: <36C65170.6AE6E97A@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
References: <4.1.19990213182304.0095d400@mail.venux.net>
<99021317445301.11018@taral.dobiecenter.com>
> You want a varchar (or is it bpchar?), not a char. char(x) will always
> return x characters, with space padding if necessary.
"bpchar" == "blank padded char", which is what char() is mapped to
internally. As Matthew has already learned, he probably really wants to
be using varchar(), or fix it up with trim().
- Tom
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