On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> elein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This is an example of the problem.  It used to expand
> > the middle thing to 15.
> 
> > elein=# select 'x' || ' '::char(15) || 'x';
> >  ?column? 
> > ----------
> >  xx
> > (1 row)
> 
> Still does, but then the spaces go away again when the value goes into
> the concatenation, because concatenation is a text operator.

But then this:

select 'x'||' '||'x'

should produce xx, but it produces x x.


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