Re: 7.2 changes to varchar truncation

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Jeffrey W(dot) Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.2 changes to varchar truncation
Date: 2002-01-01 01:49:56
Message-ID: 3C3115C4.BF3448D7@fourpalms.org
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> > What do I do to get back the old behavior?
> You don't. Unfortunately, SQL92 specifies the new behavior.

You can look for the error message in the source code and (perhaps)
revert to the old behavior instead. I'm not sure if other places in the
code were touched to get the new behavior, so ymmv...

- Thomas

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