Make length() disregard trailing spaces in char(n) values, per discussion

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: f27976c85b1fb9002727cce65b9f9567e158f754
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2004-02-01T06:27:48Z
Releases: 8.0.0
Make length() disregard trailing spaces in char(n) values, per discussion
some time ago and recent patch from Gavin Sherry.  Update documentation
to point out that trailing spaces are insignificant in char(n).

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doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml modified +18 −2
src/backend/utils/adt/varchar.c modified +9 −7