I thought a char field was supposed to return a padded string, and varchar was supposed to return a non-padded string?
I just checked though:
create table test (
stuff char(10)
);
insert into test values ('foo');
select stuff || 'lemon' from test;
This returns 'foolemon', not 'foo lemon' as I would have expected.
Alex Turner
NetEconomist
On 9/15/05, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:
> Just something I was curious about - is there any
> difference at all between "character varying" (in the
> SQL spec) without a length specified and "text" (not
> in the SQL spec)?
The SQL standard doesn't allow "character varying" without a length spec.
But yeah, in Postgres they're essentially the same thing.
regards, tom lane
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