Re: || operator

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Vinayak <vinpokale(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> PG-General Mailing List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: || operator
Date: 2014-09-03 14:01:14
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Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2014-09-03 15:25 GMT+02:00 Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>:

>> I think we should have this in core, as this definitely is a bug.
>
> hard to say - anything about CHAR(N) is strange,

On a quick scan of the standard, it looks like our current behavior
is non-conforming.

> and this change can break existing applications :(

That is true, but since the only point of supporting CHAR(n) is to
satisfy requirements of the standard, it might be something we
should do, if technically feasible.

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Kevin Grittner
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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