| From: | Andrew Kelly <akelly(at)corisweb(dot)org> |
|---|---|
| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] 'a' == 'a ' |
| Date: | 2005-10-20 13:48:43 |
| Message-ID: | 1129816123.4446.1.camel@fedora.at.home |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-general pgsql-hackers |
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:14 -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 10/20/2005 2:17 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> > (I can't believe anyone really wants varchar to be space padded. Space padding
> > always seemed like a legacy feature for databases with fixed record length
> > data types. Why would anyone want a string data type that can't represent all
> > strings?)
>
> They must have buried that "bow to COBOL" so deep in the code that they
> had no choice but to abuse their power and stuff this cruft into the
> standard.
>
MOVE SPACES TO 0101
You just gotta love it
Andy
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Richard Huxton | 2005-10-20 14:01:29 | Re: NEW in Rule makes another nextval call? |
| Previous Message | Michael Glaesemann | 2005-10-20 13:40:46 | Re: How to check is the table system |
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Michael Meskes | 2005-10-20 14:11:04 | Re: BUG #1962: ECPG and VARCHAR |
| Previous Message | Jan Wieck | 2005-10-20 12:14:57 | Re: [HACKERS] 'a' == 'a ' |