| From: | Mathieu Arnold <mat(at)mat(dot)cc> |
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| To: | thorbjorn(dot)eriksson(at)ec(dot)se |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Stripping white-space in SELECT statments |
| Date: | 2002-09-19 14:41:23 |
| Message-ID: | 543384405.1032453683@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net |
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--On jeudi 19 septembre 2002 13:20 +0200 Thorbjörn Eriksson
<thorbjorn(dot)eriksson(at)ec(dot)se> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've encountered a strange behavior in postgres 7.2.1 regarding how psql
> handles strings ending with space characters.
>
> If I want to search for records where the first column (artnrgrpmtrln_1)
> begins with
> '201901 ', our system that uses the database creates the following SQL
> statement:
>
> select artnrgrpmtrln_1 from sr where (artnrgrpmtrln_1>='201901 ' and
> artnrgrpmtrln_1<='201901 ÿ'
and why not
select artnrgrpmtrln_1
from sr
where substr(artnrgrpmtrln_1, 0, 9) = '201901 '
--
Mathieu Arnold
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