weird lower() problem with character

Hi,

it seems that something has changed in handling 'character' datatypes.

With 7.2.3 this worked fine, with 7.3.1 it does not work.

This is a test with varchar, and it works:
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test=> create table test ( test varchar(200) );
CREATE TABLE
test=> insert into test values ('test@test.com');
INSERT 12016215 1
test=> select * from test where test = lower('TEST@TEST.COM');
     test
---------------
 test@test.com
(1 row)
==============================================================

with 'character' it does not work anymore:
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test=> create table test ( test character(200) );
CREATE TABLE
test=> insert into test values ('test@test.com');
INSERT 12016228 1
test=> select * from test where test = lower('TEST@TEST.COM');
 test
------
(0 rows)
==============================================================

Comments? How can I fix that without converting to varchar?

Regards,
Bjoern