I'm CC'ng this over to -hackers ... Tom? Comments?
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Dann Corbit wrote:
Yes, clearly that is the wrong result according to the SQL standard.
Here is a SQL*Server query:
select 1 where 'a' = 'a ' AND 'a' = 'a ' AND 'a ' = 'a '
It returns (correctly): 1
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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard_D_Levine@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I was referring to trailing blanks, but did not explicitly say it,
though showed it in the examples. I am pretty sure that the SQL
standard says that trailing whitespace is insignificant in string
comparison.
Then we are broken too :)
# select 'a ' = 'a ';
?column?
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f
(1 row)
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