with spaces to the specified width <replaceable>n</>, and are

stored and displayed that way. However, the padding spaces are

treated as semantically insignificant. Trailing spaces are

disregarded when comparing two values of type <type>character</type>,

disregarded whennon-patterncomparing two values of type <type>character</type>,

and they will be removed when converting a <type>character</type> value

to one of the other string types. Note that trailing spaces

<emphasis>are</> semantically significant in

<type>character varying</type> and <type>text</type> values.

<type>character varying</type> and <type>text</type> values, and

when using pattern matching comparisons, e.g. <literal>LIKE</>,

regular expressions.

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