Am Mittwoch, den 19.10.2005, 16:29 -0300 schrieb Marc G. Fournier:
> I'm CC'ng this over to -hackers ... Tom? Comments?
>
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
> > Yes, clearly that is the wrong result according to the SQL standard.
> >
> > Here is a SQL*Server query:
> > select 1 where 'a' = 'a ' AND 'a' = 'a ' AND 'a ' = 'a '
> >
> > It returns (correctly): 1
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-
> >> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:41 AM
> >> To: Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com
> >> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
> >>
> >> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was referring to trailing blanks, but did not explicitly say it,
> >>> though showed it in the examples. I am pretty sure that the SQL
> >>> standard says that trailing whitespace is insignificant in string
> >>> comparison.
> >>
> >> Then we are broken too :)
> >>
> >> # select 'a ' = 'a ';
> >> ?column?
> >> ----------
> >> f
> >> (1 row)
experiment=# SELECT 'a '::char = 'a '::char;
?column?
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