> > Thank you. Is an "exception condition" necessarily an error, or
> > is a warning also an exception condition ?
>
> A warning/notice is called a "completion condition".
>
> > Because other db's only raise a warning. Of course we don't want to
> > copy that behavior if they are not conformant. See above question.
>
> Someone said Oracle raises an error.
Yes, I am very sorry.
> Informix seems to be the only other db that truncates silently.
Raises a warning instead of error. Would need to check Sybase and DB2, but ...
> I think Oracle wins here...
Yes, good. Do we want this in 7.1.0 ? Seems, yes :-(
Andreas
