'a' == 'a ' (Was: RE: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase)

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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>> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-
>> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:41 AM
>> To: Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com
>> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Richard_D_Levine@raytheon.com 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?
>> ----------
>>   f
>> (1 row)
>>
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