On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:35:01AM +1100, Mark Cowlishaw wrote:
> > According to "Postgres: Introduction and Concepts", varchar is slower
> > than char. So if you (like me) want to use char and get rid of the
> > padding spaces, you may use a regex replacement, as in
> >
> > while (@row=$r
> > Soma> All values called from the database are still padded with
> > Soma> extra spaces from the column size in the database. Is this
> > Soma> normal - I don't remember this happening when I was using
> > Soma> MySQL. I thought usually the database stripped the extra
> > S
