On 30 May 2001 11:16:35 -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Mark <mark@zserve.com> writes:
> > > It appears that the behavior of a bpchar compare with a string literal
> > > is not implicitly trimming the bpchar before the compare, which IMHO is
> > > incorrect behavior. Is my opinion valid?
> >
> > regression=# create table foo (f1 char(20));
> > CREATE
> > regression=# insert into foo values ('zz');
> > INSERT 800569 1
> > regression=# select * from foo;
> > f1
> > ----------------------
> > zz
> > (1 row)
> >
> > regression=# select * from foo where f1 = 'zz';
> > f1
> > ----------------------
> > zz
> > (1 row)
> >
> > regression=#
> >
> > You'll need to be more specific about what you're unhappy about.
>
> Given the thread, I think the problem he's having is tied up in
> upper and lower implicitly converting to text.
>
> select * from foo where upper(f1)='ZZ';
> gives no rows but if you put 18 spaces after the ZZ you get the
> row.
>
>
could I cast from text to something else?