The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5438
Logged by: Christoph Zwerschke
Email address: c...@online.de
PostgreSQL version: 8.0-8.4
Operating system: all
Description:Bug/quirk in ascii() function
Details:
As you would expect,
ascii(cast(' '
Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de wrote:
ascii(cast(' ' as char(1))),
ascii(cast(' ' as char))
both give 0.
I think this quirk should be fixed or at least mentioned in the
documentation of ascii().
The problem is not in ascii(), but in casting from char to text.
We have only one
Am 26.04.2010 12:11, schrieb Takahiro Itagaki:
The problem is not in ascii(), but in casting from char to text.
We have only one version of ascii() in default; ascii(text).
So, if you use ascii( ' '::char(1) ), it is actually handled as
ascii( ' '::char(1)::text ). Traling spaces were removed
Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de wrote:
Am 26.04.2010 12:11, schrieb Takahiro Itagaki:
Do you know how the SQL standard mention the behavior? IMHO,
postgres' behavior is more reasonable because
length(' '::char(1)) is 0.
Just found http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/ which claims that this
