On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:10:13PM +0200, Marco Ferretti wrote:
> I am quite new to Postgres, so forgive me if this question seems
> obvious. <br>
> <br>
> I have created a database with the UTF-8 encoding (createdb cassa
> --encoding=UTF-8) .<br>
> Then I have made the following tests :<br>
FWIW, I can't reproduce this using 7.3.6. Is there anything special
about your 'e' character, or it's a plain 'e'?
$ createdb test --encoding=UTF-8
CREATE DATABASE
COMMENT
$ psql test
Welcome to psql 7.3.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
test=# create table test (id char(5));
CREATE TABLE
test=# insert into test values ('1234e');
INSERT 16993 1
test=# create table test2 (id varchar(5));
CREATE TABLE
test=# insert into test2 values ('1234e');
INSERT 16996 1
test=# insert into test2 values ('123e');
INSERT 16997 1
test=# select '#' || id || '#', length(id) from test2;
?column? | length
----------+--------
#1234e# | 5
#123e# | 4
(2 rows)
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