"Geoff Tolley" <geoff(dot)tolley(at)yougov(dot)com> wrote:
> postgres=# SELECT 'hello' WHERE '1' IN ('1'
> postgres(# '2');
Per the SQL standard, that is the same as
SELECT 'hello' WHERE '1' IN ('12');
I believe that's intended to make it easier to code long string
literals without creating query text which has long line lengths, but
they (understandably) don't require a minimum length for the string
fragments.
-Kevin