Re: BUG #3561: CHAR(x) blank stripped. Server or documentation bug?

"Alexander Kirpa" <postgres@bilteks.com> writes:

> select '['||a||']' as aa,'['||b||']' as bb from test1;
>     aa    |    bb
> ----------+----------
>  [ok]     | [ok]
>  [ bad]   | [ bad ]
>  [  poor] | [  poor]
> (3 rows)
> It is easy to see that char(x) field really blank stripped.
> This is bug of server or documentation?

From the documentation:

> Values of type character are physically padded with spaces to the specified
> width n, and are stored and displayed that way. However, the padding spaces
> are treated as semantically insignificant. Trailing spaces are disregarded
> when comparing two values of type character, and they will be removed when
> converting a character value to one of the other string types. Note that
> trailing spaces are semantically significant in character varying and text
> values.

Concatenation is an example of an operation where the padding spaces are
treated as semantically insignificant, so they get removed before the
concatenation.

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