CHARACTER is a fixed-width data type. Columns of CHARACTER data type always have exactly one character. Columns of CHARACTER(255) data type always have exactly 255 characters, shorted values are right-padded with spaces. If you need to store strings of different length, you should always use CHARACTER VARYING / VARCHAR data type instead. If you need to store exactly one character, you can use CHARACTER or CHARACTER(1); but don't use CHARACTER(255) for this purpose, such choice is obliviously wrong.
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