Re: AW: AW: Truncation of char, varchar types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: AW: AW: Truncation of char, varchar types
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0104112023240.1201-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to AW: AW: Truncation of char, varchar types  (Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>)
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB writes:

> Thank you. Is an "exception condition" necessarily an error, or
> is a warning also an exception condition ?

A warning/notice is called a "completion condition".

> Because other db's only raise a warning. Of course we don't want to
> copy that behavior if they are not conformant. See above question.

Someone said Oracle raises an error.  Informix seems to be the only other
db that truncates silently.  I think Oracle wins here...

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/



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