> On Oct 29, 2021, at 3:09 PM, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> most of the functionality involving char(n)
...
> and those functions that do directly take a bpchar type for comparison purposes trigger the "semantically
insignificantand disregarded" bit
I meant the "most of the functionality" qualifier to apply to the second part, meaning "most of the functions that
do..."but on re-reading, my grammar didn't accomplish that. I now understand why David Johnston corrected me here:
> On Oct 29, 2021, at 3:13 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As I noted in a prior reply, octet_length(char) does the length computation with the padding spaces. So it is
possiblefor char input functions to do the expected thing.
You are correct, sir.
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