From: Taral <taral@cyberjunkie.com>
To: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] (libpq question) Holy cow, what's all this fluff?!
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 17:44:17 -0600
Message-ID: <99021317445301.11018@taral.dobiecenter.com> (raw)
References: <4.1.19990213182304.0095d400@mail.venux.net>
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>When using the PQgetvalue() function of libpq, the results, at least char
>fields, return the value in full, i.e. a char(20) field with the text
>"Matthew" for example returns "Matthew " (all 20 characters,
>padded with spaces).
You want a varchar (or is it bpchar?), not a char. char(x) will always return x
characters, with space padding if necessary.
Taral
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