"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/20/2005 04:24:26 PM:
> > -Original Message-
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> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:12 PM
> > To: Tom Lane
> > Cc: Chris Travers; Dann Corbit; Greg Stark; josh@agliodbs.com; pgsql-
> > [E
I will happily reiterate that I am the troll who started this mess by
whining about how *Oracle* handles this. Tom's explanation that CHAR is
has a PAD collation and VARCHAR has a NO PAD collation have restored my
faith that there is goodness in the world. My whining was out of
ignorance. I woul
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/20/2005 03:11:23 PM:
> The hard part would be in figuring out how
> the output routine could know how many spaces to add back.
The length is in the metadata for the column, or am I being dense?
>
> regards, tom lane
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