On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:14 -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 10/20/2005 2:17 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> > (I can't believe anyone really wants varchar to be space padded. Space 
> > padding
> > always seemed like a legacy feature for databases with fixed record length
> > data types. Why would anyone want a string data type that can't represent 
> > all
> > strings?)
> 
> They must have buried that "bow to COBOL" so deep in the code that they 
> had no choice but to abuse their power and stuff this cruft into the 
> standard.
> 

MOVE SPACES TO 0101

You just gotta love it

Andy


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