Re: CHAR constants - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: CHAR constants
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Msg-id 14680.1026493749@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to CHAR constants  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:
> So, what should the behavior be of a constant declared as
> CHAR 'hi'

> ? Right now it fails, since SQL9x asks that the char type defaults to a
> length of one and our parser does not distinguish between usage as a
> constant declaration and as a column definition (where you would want
> the "char(1)" to be filled in). But istm that for a constant string, the
> length should be whatever the string is, or unspecified.

Seems we should convert that to char(2).  Not sure how difficult it is
to do though...
        regards, tom lane


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