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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:41:23 +0200
From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
To: thorbjorn.eriksson@ec.se
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Stripping white-space in SELECT statments
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--On jeudi 19 septembre 2002 13:20 +0200 Thorbj=F6rn Eriksson
<thorbjorn.eriksson@ec.se> wrote:

> Hello,
>=20
> I've encountered a strange behavior in postgres 7.2.1 regarding how psql
> handles strings ending with space characters.
>=20
> If I want to search for records where the first column (artnrgrpmtrln_1)
> begins with
> '201901  ', our system that uses the database creates the following SQL
> statement:
>=20
> select artnrgrpmtrln_1 from sr where (artnrgrpmtrln_1>=3D'201901  ' and
> artnrgrpmtrln_1<=3D'201901  =FF'

and why not=20
select artnrgrpmtrln_1
from sr
where substr(artnrgrpmtrln_1, 0, 9) =3D '201901  '


--=20
Mathieu Arnold