On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:55:28PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > So the behavior of the "char" type is anomalous in this regard? Other > character-based types behave like varchar (which has the behavior I > would expect here)? That is encouraging. Why isn't the behavior of > "char" in this regard considered a bug to be fixed?
I think there are lots of implicit casts going on that muddy the water with respect to what's going on at a type level. Things get promoted to TEXT easily in PG. I posted a patch in this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20090902091654.gl5...@samason.me.uk -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
