Re: [HACKERS] 'a' == 'a ' - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Kelly
Subject Re: [HACKERS] 'a' == 'a '
Date
Msg-id 1129816123.4446.1.camel@fedora.at.home
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] 'a' == 'a '  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:14 -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 10/20/2005 2:17 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> > (I can't believe anyone really wants varchar to be space padded. Space padding
> > always seemed like a legacy feature for databases with fixed record length
> > data types. Why would anyone want a string data type that can't represent all
> > strings?)
>
> They must have buried that "bow to COBOL" so deep in the code that they
> had no choice but to abuse their power and stuff this cruft into the
> standard.
>

MOVE SPACES TO 0101

You just gotta love it

Andy


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