bpchar type

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#1Patrick Dunford
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I have some tables that I copied to a Postgres server from MS Access. The
original tables were Paradox.

In fields that were originally Paradox Logical type, MS Access shows in the
ODBC linked Postgres tables that the datatype of these fields is Text with a
length of 1 character (Text being the MS Access type representation of what
is on the server, not the server's datatype).

Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is
this a Postgres data type?

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#2Peter Eisentraut
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In reply to: Patrick Dunford (#1)
Re: bpchar type

Patrick Dunford writes:

Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is
this a Postgres data type?

bpchar is the internal name for char().

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#3Patrick Dunford
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In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#2)
Re: bpchar type

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:45:07 +0000 (UTC) AD in
comp.databases.postgresql.general, Peter Eisentraut said:

Patrick Dunford writes:

Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is
this a Postgres data type?

bpchar is the internal name for char().

interesting the next time I uploaded it correctly converted them to bool

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#4will trillich
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In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#2)
Re: bpchar type

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:39:50PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

Patrick Dunford writes:

Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is
this a Postgres data type?

bpchar is the internal name for char().

short for "blank-padded character". as opposed to varchar, which
is either "null-padded char" or "variable-length char" but we
don't have to worry about which. then there's text... hmm!

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