Jiri,

J> Why is the 'short' string right-padded to length of 'looooooooong'? Can I
J> remove this spaces using some easy steps (i.e. not using rtrim UDF, ...).

I think that string literals like 'looooooooong' and 'short' evaluate
to the char type. If you want a different type (like varchar) you'll
need to cast() them.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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