On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Reid Thompson" <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com> writes:
> > is this the expected result? i.e. in the past was the result incorrect?
> > or is there a configuration param that controls this?
>
> Yes, yes, and no. You could change the pg_cast entry for char-to-text
> if you wanted, but then you would run into the other unpleasant cases
> that prompted us to change it in the first place.
I seem to recall this is how the SQL spec says it should happen. Is
that my imagination, or did that subject come up before?