> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:54 PM > To: Dann Corbit > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] 'a' == 'a ' > > "Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I guess that additional ambiguity arises if you add additional spaces to > > the end. Many database systems solve this by trimming the characters > > from the end of the string upon storage and the returned string will not > > have any trailing blanks. > > Can you document that? ISTM that that would effectively make char(n) > and varchar(n) exactly equivalent, which is ... um ... a bit stupid.
This is SQL*Server: drop table test_char go create table test_char( fixed_30 char(30), varch_30 varchar(30), nchar_30 nchar(30), nvarc_30 nvarchar(30) ) go insert into test_char values('Dann ', 'Dann ', 'Dann ', 'Dann ') go select len(fixed_30), len(varch_30), len(nchar_30), len(nvarc_30) from test_char go Result set: 4 4 4 4 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org