From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: elein <elein@varlena.com>
Cc: news.postgresql.org <jlim@natsoft.com.my>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: CHAR(n) always trims trailing spaces in 7.4
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:40:49 -0500
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elein <elein@varlena.com> writes:
> This is an example of the problem. It used to expand
> the middle thing to 15.
> elein=# select 'x' || ' '::char(15) || 'x';
> ?column?
> ----------
> xx
> (1 row)
Still does, but then the spaces go away again when the value goes into
the concatenation, because concatenation is a text operator.
regards, tom lane
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