Hi Tom,
Thanks for your input. So if I understand you correctly, it is implied that the behavior with PostgreSQL 7.3.4 is likely to be incorrect (or it was a bug, I guess?)
One more question, in your reply, you mentioned that "char" type considers trailing spaces to be insignificant. Should this idea be applied to both how "char" type holds whitespaces and how equal operator works on "char" type?
Thanks, Kazuya
Tom Lane wrote:
Kazuya Togashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
With version 7.3.4, following query returns true, but with version 7.4.2 it returns false.
select ' '::text = ' '::char;
Offhand that seems like a step forward to me. "char" type considers trailing spaces to be insignificant, so it is really correct to consider that ' '::char is equivalent to ''::text, not ' '::text which represents a single significant space.
If you do not like this behavior, I suggest casting your text input to char so that the comparison will occur under char rules not text rules.
regards, tom lane
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