Re: BPCHAR description in 8.3. Character Types is misleading and incomplete

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Sergei Katkovsky <skatkovsky(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BPCHAR description in 8.3. Character Types is misleading and incomplete
Date: 2025-10-20 14:22:50
Message-ID: 96ad1acfb43cc73b0cdbe74719f035b1ee3f77c0.camel@cybertec.at
Views: Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-docs

On Mon, 2025-10-20 at 16:42 +0400, Sergei Katkovsky wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
>
> > But perhaps it is really better to leave things as they are now, perhaps
> > replacing "blank-trimming", perhaps as "variable-length string that ignores
> > training blanks".
>
> Looks like nobody is against "insignificant/ignorable trailing
> whitespace" or anything like that anymore? Am I right?

Any verbal description will never completely represent the facts.
But I'd say that "ignores trailing blanks" (not tabs, for example)
is a fairly accurate description.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-docs by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Euler Taveira 2025-10-21 01:37:20 Re: Use uppercase keywords in foreign key tutorial
Previous Message Sergei Katkovsky 2025-10-20 12:42:30 Re: BPCHAR description in 8.3. Character Types is misleading and incomplete