14.11.2019 03:40, Richard Damon rich...@damon-family.org [firebird-support] wrote: > By the SQL standard, there are some noticeable effects. CHAR is defined > as a fixed width, so data is padded with blanks to reach that width, and > then the blanks are removed on retrieval. > > Firebird might not implement this distinction since it doesn't need to > pad CHAR fields.
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