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Subject: Re: HELP !!!!!
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Date: Wed, 27 May 92 08:26:54 PDT

In message <9205271415.AA00542@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> you write:

> Query sent to backend is "retrieve (emp.all) "
>  [ ... ]
> where name=char[], office=char[],  phone=char[], salary=int4
> 
> Postquel:
> ---------
> Problem: It seems that I cannot do strings comparison
> EG:  retrieve (emp.office) where emp.name="ludhi" \g

use type char16 (sixteen-byte fixed-length char string) or text
(variable-length char string, up to 8Kbytes) rather than the
char[] type.  no equality operator is defined between arrays
and strings.
					mike olson
					project sequoia 2000
					uc berkeley
					mao@cs.berkeley.edu