From: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>
To: Jiaqing Wang <jjw72@swbell.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: weird situation, BUG or I'm not doing it right
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:27:30 -0500
Message-ID: <20020825042730.GA6376@rice.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <KCEJKHPEBJGGCDBEMMNKIEGCCBAA.jjw72@swbell.net>
References: <KCEJKHPEBJGGCDBEMMNKIEGCCBAA.jjw72@swbell.net>
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 10:56:31PM -0700, Jiaqing Wang wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found below situation weird, it seems to me a bug.
>
> backend=> select * from valid_addr where state_abrev=upper('pr');
> zip_code | city_name | state_abrev
> ----------+-----------+-------------
> (0 rows)
>
> while "select * from valid_addr where state_abrev='PR';" produces following
> output
>
<20 lines of output>
You left out the critical piece: what's the schema for the table valid_addr?
I'll deduce that the column "state_abrev" is defined as something like
'char(4)'. It needs to be either char(2) (if _all_ state abbreviations are
guarenteed to be only 2) or as text. fixed with char fields are padded with
blanks. Not a bug, but an feature of the SQL standard.
Ross
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