pgsql: Inserting 5 characters into char(10) does not produce 5 padding

From: ishii(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org (Tatsuo Ishii)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Inserting 5 characters into char(10) does not produce 5 padding
Date: 2005-05-24 23:15:05
Message-ID: 20050524231505.C81FB5288A@svr1.postgresql.org
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Inserting 5 characters into char(10) does not produce 5 padding spaces
if they are two-byte multibyte characters. Same thing can be happen
if octet_length(multibyte_chars) == n where n is char(n).
Long standing bug since 7.3 days. Per report and fix from Yoshiyuki Asaba.

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REL7_4_STABLE

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/parser:
parse_expr.c (r1.163.2.1 -> r1.163.2.2)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c.diff?r1=1.163.2.1&r2=1.163.2.2)

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