Re: || operator

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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 14:37:45
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCCbm4OReaYHeaF5B2FftHGDqTVEj-cschkGn+Wa6sFqQ@mail.gmail.com
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2014-09-03 16:01 GMT+02:00 Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>:

> 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.
>
>
It is true, but nobody reported bug yet, so who know, how this feature is
used.

Probably it needs a deeper analyze of difference between Pg CHAR(n) and
standard CHAR(n)

Pavel

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