Re: CHAR LIKE VARCHAR

From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: ilejn(at)yandex(dot)ru, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CHAR LIKE VARCHAR
Date: 2005-06-07 09:24:44
Message-ID: EA3FA6C1-9747-4D3C-97CE-A930CE00F111@myrealbox.com
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On Jun 7, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Richard Huxton wrote:

> If you ask me (and it's too late to back out now :-) the whole
> behaviour of CHAR(n) is wrong, broken and just a bad idea.

Just a quick addition: AFAIK, this bad, broken behavior (I definitely
agree!) is per SQL spec. :( Don't know about the LIKE operator,
however.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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