This means that there is no more difference between CHAR(N) and
VARCHAR(N). To bad... '1 ' sould be different from '1'.
Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>
>>Are these changes intentional,
>
>
> Yes. We've been moving more and more steadily towards the notion that
> trailing spaces in char(n) values are insignificant noise. If you think
> that trailing spaces are significant, you shouldn't be using char(n)
> to store them.
>
> regards, tom lane
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