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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: rtrim giving weird result
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In response to rtrim giving weird result  ("G. Anthony Reina" <reina@nsi.edu>)
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"G. Anthony Reina" <reina@nsi.edu> writes:
> I'm running Postgres 7.0.3 on a RedHat Linux 6.1. For some reason, rtrim
> is giving me an incorrect result:

No, you have an incorrect understanding of rtrim.  The second argument
is a set of removable characters, not a string to be matched.

AFAIK we are following Oracle in defining it that way ...
        regards, tom lane

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