Re: Problem with fixed length fields.

Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> This is a problem with the driver because it is typing the '  ' values as
> text, not char, so the comparison doesn't work right because these two
> types handle trailing spaces differently.

Can you refrain from assigning a type at all?  People writing the
equivalent SQL directly would almost always write 'foo', not
'foo'::text or 'foo'::char.  The parser's behavior has been tuned
so that that usually works nicely.

            regards, tom lane