Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Comparison semantics of CHAR data type

2014-02-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 05:02:26PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:47:01PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:17:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > You can see the UTF8 case is fine because \n is considered greater > > > > > than space, but i

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Comparison semantics of CHAR data type

2014-02-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:47:01PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:17:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > You can see the UTF8 case is fine because \n is considered greater > > > > than space, but in the C locale, where \n is less than space, the > > > > false return v

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Comparison semantics of CHAR data type

2014-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:17:11PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > You can see the UTF8 case is fine because \n is considered greater > > > than space, but in the C locale, where \n is less than space, the > > > false return value shows the problem with > > > internal_bpchar_pattern_compare() tri

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Comparison semantics of CHAR data type

2013-10-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
> > You can see the UTF8 case is fine because \n is considered greater > > than space, but in the C locale, where \n is less than space, the > > false return value shows the problem with > > internal_bpchar_pattern_compare() trimming the string and first > > comparing on lengths. This is exactly t

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Comparison semantics of CHAR data type

2013-10-14 Thread Thomas Fanghaenel
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > You have some good questions here, though there are two interrelated > things going on here. First is collation, and the second is the > trimming of spaces from char() comparisons. Sorry, I should have probably mentioned more explicitly tha

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Comparison semantics of CHAR data type

2013-10-11 Thread Kevin Grittner
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Thomas Fanghaenel wrote: >> I was wondering about the proper semantics of CHAR comparisons in some corner >> cases that involve control characters with values that are less than 0x20 >> (space). What matters in general isn't where the characters fall when comparing individ

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Comparison semantics of CHAR data type

2013-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:51:26PM -0400, Thomas Fanghaenel wrote: > I was wondering about the proper semantics of CHAR comparisons in some corner > cases that involve control characters with values that are less than 0x20 > (space). > > Consider the following testcase: > > === > create table t (