Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase

From: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase
Date: 2005-10-19 19:21:22
Message-ID: D425483C2C5C9F49B5B7A41F8944154757D200@postal.corporate.connx.com
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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)
>
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