Re: character varying == text? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: character varying == text?
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Msg-id 29530.1127162330@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: character varying == text?  ("Reid Thompson" <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com>)
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"Reid Thompson" <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com> writes:
> is this the expected result? i.e. in the past was the result incorrect?
> or is there a configuration param that controls this?

Yes, yes, and no.  You could change the pg_cast entry for char-to-text
if you wanted, but then you would run into the other unpleasant cases
that prompted us to change it in the first place.

            regards, tom lane

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