Tim Bunce wrote:How about a new attribute: AutoTruncateA. What changes you'd like to see in the DBI API.
so I can just put "grkaerhgkjehrgkaerhg" in a varcar/char (3) and it will store "grk"
That happens anyway in DBD::Informix - the DBMS does it. There is a warning raised, but the operation goes through anyway. Which DBMS doesn't do that automatically? Ingres?
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