Is there any TODO here?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com> writes:
> > I guess that additional ambiguity arises if you add additional spaces to
> > the end. Many database systems solve this by trimming the characters
> > from the end of the string upon storage and the returned string will not
> > have any trailing blanks.
>
> Can you document that? ISTM that that would effectively make char(n)
> and varchar(n) exactly equivalent, which is ... um ... a bit stupid.
>
> regards, tom lane
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