Re: [GENERAL] bpchar type

2001-04-17 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:39:50PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Patrick Dunford writes: > > > Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is > > this a Postgres data type? > > bpchar is the internal name for char(). short for "blank-padded character". as opposed to

[GENERAL] bpchar type

2001-04-16 Thread Patrick Dunford
I have some tables that I copied to a Postgres server from MS Access. The original tables were Paradox. In fields that were originally Paradox Logical type, MS Access shows in the ODBC linked Postgres tables that the datatype of these fields is Text with a length of 1 character (Text being the