OK, I am not an expert on the SQL standard, but I thought the definition
varied by data type e.g. varchar <> bpchar
Terry
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com wrote:
>
>> I was referring to trailing blanks, but did not explicitly say it,
>> though showed it in the examples. I am pretty sure that the SQL
>> standard says that trailing whitespace is insignificant in string
>> comparison.
>
>
> Then we are broken too :)
>
> # select 'a ' = 'a ';
> ?column?
> ----------
> f
> (1 row)
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