On 11/18/2011 10:46 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
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> Since postgres turns "abc" into "abc    " when updating, and since postgres 
> strips
> the padded spaces in comparisons, it seems to follow that when psycopg2 
> fetches the
> data from postgres, it should strip out the trailing spaces in char fields so 
> that
> python comparisons of the data don't take into account the padded spaces.

Since word padding handling tends to vary so much I tend to be explicit 
as possible when doing field comparisons.

Examples:
On database side:
  SELECT trim(some_field), ...
OR
On Python side:
  some_field_value.strip()


>
> Paul
>
>
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Adrian Klaver
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