Re: Substring auto trim

From: "Charles O'Farrell" <charleso(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Substring auto trim
Date: 2010-01-13 22:20:16
Message-ID: 65d71e1c1001131420l532f18e5o82521b2b888c7d9d@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov
> wrote:

>
> I'm inclined to agree with you, but it does present a barrier to
> those migrating. Are there any "migration considerations" documents
> where we should mention this? Standards compliance notes in the
> docs? Some form of this question seems to be asked frequently....
>
>
Many thanks for the quick and detailed responses. Looks like we'll have to
stick with that work around for now.

Part of the problem for us re: varchars is that we are using Cobol where
trailing spaces are significant and litter all our data and queries.

Thanks again.

Charles

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