Github user DaveBirdsall commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/trafodion/pull/1544#discussion_r186575593
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docs/sql_reference/src/asciidoc/_chapters/sql_functions_and_expressions.adoc ---
@@ -581,12 +581,12 @@ characters. See
<<character_value_expressions,Character Value Expressions>>.
[[considerations_for_ascii]]
=== Considerations For ASCII
-For a string expression in the UTF8 character set, if the value of the
+If the value of the
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Yes! That's correct. Seems like this is needlessly complicated, doesn't it?
The compiler writer tried to make a useful compromise between the strong-typing
of columns vs. a weaker but perhaps more user-convenient typing for string
literals.
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