On 13/10/2013 20:56, Kjell Rilbe wrote: > Den 2013-10-13 10:56 skrev Ivan Přenosil såhär: > I wish the trailing whitespace semantics would never have been made > applicable to varchar data. I really don't see the point. In fact, since > the varchar type was introduced, I don't see why it would be useful at > all - assuming char is used only for fixed-width data (why else use char > and not varchar?).
AFAIU, the trailing space behaveiour of varchar is part of the SQL standard, so not much wriggle room there...
