After v7.1 is released ... ?
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Excessively long values are currently silently truncated when they are
> inserted into char or varchar fields. This makes the entire notion of
> specifying a length limit for these types kind of useless, IMO. Needless
> to say, it's also not in compliance with SQL.
>
> How do people feel about changing this to raise an error in this
> situation? Does anybody rely on silent truncation? Should this be
> user-settable, or can those people resort to using triggers?
>
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