El día viernes, octubre 18, 2019 a las 03:01:58p. m. +0200, Tom Lane escribió: > Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > When we export char columns with our Perl tools, they come out with trailing blanks (in Sybase they don't). Can this be suppressed? > > Switch to varchar, perhaps? > > regards, tom lane Sometimes people does not know, what they propose. We have a historical 25 years grown ILS which runs on top of Sybase, Oracle, Informix ... and should now be ported to PostgreSQL. We can't simple switch internal table structures and adopt some 10.000.000 lines of code (or debug while it is now crashing). Thanks anyway. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub 3. Oktober! Wir gratulieren! Der Berliner Fernsehturm wird 50 aus: https://www.jungewelt.de/2019/10-02/index.php