thanks! you are right. we're porting a 20 year old xbase app and it's painful
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
john snow <ofbizfanster@gmail.com> writes: > when you say char-type values, do you include varchar?
No. varchar and text consider trailing spaces to be significant.
To my mind, there are very few situations where char(n) is actually a reasonable choice of datatype. Maybe for US state abbreviations or the like. If you're even asking this question, it suggests that you ought to be using varchar/text.
char(n) basically exists to support fixed-field-width data designs that should have died along with the punched cards that inspired them.
