| From: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at> |
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| To: | "'Peter Eisentraut'" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | AW: AW: AW: Truncation of char, varchar types |
| Date: | 2001-04-12 08:24:01 |
| Message-ID: | 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368285@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at |
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> > Thank you. Is an "exception condition" necessarily an error, or
> > is a warning also an exception condition ?
>
> A warning/notice is called a "completion condition".
>
> > Because other db's only raise a warning. Of course we don't want to
> > copy that behavior if they are not conformant. See above question.
>
> Someone said Oracle raises an error.
Yes, I am very sorry.
> Informix seems to be the only other db that truncates silently.
Raises a warning instead of error. Would need to check Sybase and DB2, but ...
> I think Oracle wins here...
Yes, good. Do we want this in 7.1.0 ? Seems, yes :-(
Andreas
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