"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.
regards, tom lane