On 13/10/2013 20:56, Kjell Rilbe wrote:

> Den 2013-10-13 10:56 skrev Ivan Přenosil såhär:
> I wish the trailing whitespace semantics would never have been made
> applicable to varchar data. I really don't see the point. In fact, since
> the varchar type was introduced, I don't see why it would be useful at
> all - assuming char is used only for fixed-width data (why else use char
> and not varchar?).

AFAIU, the trailing space behaveiour of varchar is part of the SQL
standard, so not much wriggle room there...