Re: character and text comparison - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Jacek Rembisz
Subject Re: character and text comparison
Date
Msg-id 20040915174947.GA7646@melina.szuwary.org
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In response to Re: character and text comparison  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:43:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jacek Rembisz <jr178783@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl> writes:
> > When I run  SELECT ' '::character = ' '::text;
> > on PostgreSQL 7.4 the result is `false'
> > while on 7.3 and 7.2 instalations result is `true'
>
> > Is this an intentional change?
>
> Yes.
>
> We now strip trailing blanks when converting a char(n) value to text.

Thank you for a quick answer.

I have changed my application to use text type instead of character type.

best regards,
Jacek Rembisz

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