[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do you think of an Postgres option that would enable stripping of > trailing blanks from connect host variables when turned ON?
I would not support such an option. If we added flags for every single thing that someone wanted, the system would be unusable. > This would allow current behavior to be supported by ECPG and the > Postgres server, but allow applications that need the behavior (like > a Cobol/SQL preprocessor for Postgres), to make use of it. > > When I searched the mail archives, I found that others had run into > this same problem, in this case with an ODBC driver: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/1998-08/msg00000.php Just because Oracle does it doesn't mean we should. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
