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ID: 52388 User updated by: michael at jmslondon dot com Reported by: michael at jmslondon dot com Summary: pg_fetch return space char on empty field -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: PostgreSQL related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.13 New Comment: The submission has altered this so it is unreadable. Closing it as make no sense Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-21 13:41:39] michael at jmslondon dot com Description: ------------ pg_fetch_* returns space string (e.g. ' ') when returning a empty sting ''
Postgres is returning an empty string and pg_fetch is changing the return value.
Empty string is only return if the result is caste as a varchar in the sql 
e.g."SELECT test_thing::varchar". Test script: --------------- //In DB
CREATE TABLE test ( test_thing VARCHAR(5) NOT NULL DEFAULT '');
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('');

//code
$testing = pg_query($db_conn,"SELECT test_thing FROM test WHERE test_thing='');
print_r(pg_fetch_all($testing));
print 'testing'.pg_fetch_result($testing,0,0).'this'; Expected result: ---------------- array(1) {
[0]=
 array(1) {
 ['test_thing']=
 string(0) ''
}
}

testingthis
 Actual result: -------------- array(1) {
[0]=
 array(1) {
 ['test_thing']=
 string(1) ' '
}
}

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