Re: (b)trim anomalies - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: (b)trim anomalies
Date
Msg-id 200412021737.iB2Hbfo20949@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: (b)trim anomalies  (Thomas F.O'Connell <tfo@sitening.com>)
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Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> Nice. Thanks, Bruce. If I felt as if I could speak a little more
> authoritatively about why it had been missing, I would've offered to
> document it.
>
> Now it is a psql/postgres internals issue that causes \df trim not to
> reveal anything?

It doesn't reveal with \df because we are mapping the ANSI-standard
syntax of TRIM to the Oracle-compatible function of btrim.  That
mapping is not something psql can see.

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