Re: BUG #1862: ECPG Connect, host variable trailing blanks

Jim.Gray@Bull.com wrote:
> What do you think of an Postgres option that would enable stripping of
> trailing blanks from connect host variables when turned ON?

I would not support such an option.  If we added flags for every single
thing that someone wanted, the system would be unusable.

> This would allow current behavior to be supported by ECPG and the
> Postgres server, but allow applications that need the behavior (like
> a Cobol/SQL preprocessor for Postgres), to make use of it.
>
> When I searched the mail archives, I found that others had run into
> this same problem, in this case with an ODBC driver:
>    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/1998-08/msg00000.php

Just because Oracle does it doesn't mean we should.

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