Re: varchar truncation from 7.1 to 7.2

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:04:56PM -0400, terry@greatgulfhomes.com wrote:
> > I agree, I had the same last minute scramble to make apps work with the no
> > longer silent truncation.
>
> I think one area that could be improved is a clear listing of
> client-visible incompatibilities in the release notes (AFAIK we might
> have a 1-line 'Raise error on long varchar' line in HISTORY, but not
> a lot more than that).

I see in 7.2 history:

   CHAR(), VARCHAR() now reject strings that are too long (Peter E)

It should have been in the incompatibilities section at the top, though.

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