with spaces to the specified width 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 character,
+ disregarded when comparing two values of type character,
and they will be removed when converting a character value
to one of the other string types. Note that trailing spaces
are> semantically significant in
character varying and text values, and
- when using pattern matching comparisons, e.g. LIKE>,
+ when using pattern matching, e.g. LIKE>,
regular expressions.