Re: Trailing spaces in char or varchar fields - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Trailing spaces in char or varchar fields
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Msg-id 25262.978657971@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Trailing spaces in char or varchar fields  ("Huy Do" <huy@travel.com.au>)
Responses RE: Trailing spaces in char or varchar fields
Re: Trailing spaces in char or varchar fields
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"Huy Do" <huy@travel.com.au> writes:
> Is there a way to get postgres to keep the trailing spaces
> in a field. I have an existing database which I am porting
> to postgresql. This database allows fields to have trailing
> spaces and many key fields have trailing spaces to distinguish
> uniqueness (i know this is bad but it's legacy stuff).
> When I dump my database and try to copy it into postgresql, it
> complains about duplicate keys because postgres is trimming the
> spaces.

Postgres does not trim trailing spaces.  I suspect that that behavior
is coming from whatever tool you used to transfer the data.

            regards, tom lane

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