Thomas Miller wrote:

> This is clearly a bug. I think one of the things that the next ODS need
> to do is store char
> length and byte length. If it is already doing this, then the engine
> has a bug in it for not
> checking both. If you are going to ignore the Char length, then lets
> change SQL and
> drop VARCHAR and CHAR and replace them with BYTECHAR.
>
> If someone has relied on a bug in the engine, their problem.

So far this seems to be the consensus among forum participants who are
not "insiders".

Is there anyone in this forum who's not an insider who would need
backwards compatibility in this respect?

Just trying to get *some* kind of indication...

Thanks,
Kjell
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