X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F1630E68A for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:18:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32632-04 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:18:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.185]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2570D30E976 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:18:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [212.227.126.161] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19V9Ea-0006RE-00 for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:18:44 +0200 Received: from [217.230.197.16] (helo=ecologic.de) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19V9Ea-0002nE-00 for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:18:44 +0200 Message-ID: <3EF99322.6090908@ecologic.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:18:42 +0200 From: Dani Oderbolz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: TR: Like and = References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200306/290 X-Sequence-Number: 14048 Nicolas JOUANIN wrote: >Hi, > > Thanks for your help. In fact that means 2 solutions for this: > >1) select * from pdi where rtrim(pdi) = '1006666058' > >or > >2) Use VARCHAR instead of CHAR > >I don't which is the best , but both are working. > >Nicolas. > > Do you have a specific reason why to use CHAR? I use CHAR only for certain one-byte flags, and even there its use is debatable. I would use VARCHAR; if I was you. Cheers, Dani