| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Reid Thompson <Reid(dot)Thompson(at)ateb(dot)com>, armtuk(at)gmail(dot)com, CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: character varying == text? |
| Date: | 2005-09-19 20:47:08 |
| Message-ID: | 1127162828.30825.0.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Reid Thompson" <Reid(dot)Thompson(at)ateb(dot)com> writes:
> > is this the expected result? i.e. in the past was the result incorrect?
> > or is there a configuration param that controls this?
>
> Yes, yes, and no. You could change the pg_cast entry for char-to-text
> if you wanted, but then you would run into the other unpleasant cases
> that prompted us to change it in the first place.
I seem to recall this is how the SQL spec says it should happen. Is
that my imagination, or did that subject come up before?
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