On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Kjell Rilbe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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?). > > The problem being addressed, I think was comparing varchars to chars or literals. The reason octets work is that a space is just another binary value. Good luck, Ann
