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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
