Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mapping '' to ' ' doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It isn't what > I'd expect. > I think the behavior you describe in this note is better. I'm coming to that conclusion as well. If you look closely, both charin() and charout() act that way already; so the second proposal boils down to making the text <=> char conversion functions act in accordance with the way that char's I/O conversions already act. That seems a less drastic change than altering both I/O and conversion behavior. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly