Re: character varying == text? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: character varying == text?
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Msg-id 1127162828.30825.0.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: character varying == text?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Reid Thompson" <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com> writes:
> > is this the expected result? i.e. in the past was the result incorrect?
> > or is there a configuration param that controls this?
>
> Yes, yes, and no.  You could change the pg_cast entry for char-to-text
> if you wanted, but then you would run into the other unpleasant cases
> that prompted us to change it in the first place.

I seem to recall this is how the SQL spec says it should happen.  Is
that my imagination, or did that subject come up before?

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