Document that char() ignores spaces only in non-pattern comparisons

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Bruce Momjian
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Document that char() ignores spaces only in non-pattern comparisons
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201103081641.p28GfhB00195@momjian.us
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A private email I received indicated that our documentation about
ignoring trailing spaces in CHAR() comparisons was slightly inaccurate. 
I have update our docs to indicate it is only non-pattern comparisons
that ignore spaces with CHAR().  Applied doc patch attached.

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  Bruce Momjian          http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

  + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index b8f6e23..22d4c4e 100644
*** a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
*************** SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float
*** 1014,1024 ****
      with spaces to the specified width n</>, and are
      stored and displayed that way.  However, the padding spaces are
      treated as semantically insignificant.  Trailing spaces are
!     disregarded when comparing two values of type character,
      and they will be removed when converting a character value
      to one of the other string types.  Note that trailing spaces
      are</> semantically significant in
!     character varying and text values.
     
  
     
--- 1014,1026 ----
      with spaces to the specified width n</>, and are
      stored and displayed that way.  However, the padding spaces are
      treated as semantically insignificant.  Trailing spaces are
!     disregarded when non-pattern comparing two values of type character,
      and they will be removed when converting a character value
      to one of the other string types.  Note that trailing spaces
      are</> semantically significant in
!     character varying and text values, and
!     when using pattern matching comparisons, e.g. LIKE</>,
!     regular expressions.
     
  
     
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