diff options
| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2011-03-08 12:54:00 -0500 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2011-03-08 12:54:00 -0500 |
| commit | 915cd10c164be27dac0134efb16358f7d7564e8d (patch) | |
| tree | a062f249bf21e6f74736c533eb9367fd2f339707 | |
| parent | 7465ae06be4f1dbc90575d68d1ffc3351e1ca855 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-915cd10c164be27dac0134efb16358f7d7564e8d.tar.gz postgresql-915cd10c164be27dac0134efb16358f7d7564e8d.zip | |
Adjust CHAR() doc mention of pattern matching issues for trailing
spaces.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index 22d4c4e33a9..0bb6594eab1 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1014,12 +1014,12 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8; with spaces to the specified width <replaceable>n</>, and are stored and displayed that way. However, the padding spaces are treated as semantically insignificant. Trailing spaces are - disregarded when non-pattern comparing two values of type <type>character</type>, + disregarded when comparing two values of type <type>character</type>, and they will be removed when converting a <type>character</type> value to one of the other string types. Note that trailing spaces <emphasis>are</> semantically significant in <type>character varying</type> and <type>text</type> values, and - when using pattern matching comparisons, e.g. <literal>LIKE</>, + when using pattern matching, e.g. <literal>LIKE</>, regular expressions. </para> |