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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Long strings, short varchars
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208151913130.20055-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Long strings, short varchars  ("Sasa Markovic" <saxon@eunet.yu>)
Responses Re: Long strings, short varchars  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Sasa Markovic writes:

> Long input string was silently trimmed. But in PG7.2 an error is triggered.
> OK, I suppose this is just a new feature, not a bug but. But...
> ...Is it possible to restore the old behaviour?

Write a rule that truncates the string before it's inserted.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net

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