I have a situation where I want to add a record to an Oracle 8.1.7 table. One of the fields is declared as VARCHAR2 NOT NULL, but I want its value to be a space.

DBD::Oracle 1.06 notes in the Changes file that as of 1.05, it strips trailing spaces from VARCHAR2 fields. This appears to be true on all operations, including SELECT.

Of course, if you strip trailing spaces from a field whose value is ONLY spaces, then the value becomes null (as far as Oracle is concerned).

The only workaround I've found thus far is to use NVL(?,' ') in the preparation of all statements which use this field.

Is there a better workaround? Please??

--Glenn

In reply to adding blank to varchar2 NOT NULL field in DBD::Oracle by Anonymous Monk

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