From: Dan Nelson
Date: February 21 2003 3:08am
Subject: Re: Is this a bug?
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In the last episode (Feb 21), Zhestkov Victor said:
> I have a table with varchar column and when I execute SELECT query like that:
> SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE somecolumn='abc   '; it returns records which 
> contain records with bo 'abc  ' value, and which are only 'abc'.
> Thry this SELECT 'abc' = 'abc   '; it returns true. I think it rather strange.
> I have mysql installed from Debian 3.0 r0.

From the docs:

   * All string columns, except `BLOB' and `TEXT' columns, automatically
     have all trailing spaces removed when retrieved. For `CHAR' types
     this is okay, and may be regarded as a feature according to ANSI
     SQL92. The bug is that in MySQL Server, `VARCHAR' columns are
     treated the same way.

It's mentioned in 3 other places as well.

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	Dan Nelson
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