Forms 10gR2 does not trim spaces

Question

Hi,
we are planning to migrate to 10g from 6i. as far as i know forms always trims trailing spaces. so when we are inserting space to a table it inserts null.
but at 10gR2 it does not trims spaces and inserts non-null value.
Am i missing something or is it really changed?
Regards. Engin.

Answer 1

I had fogotten about that bug. But it still exists, even in Forms 6i, patch 17 (6.0.8.26.0)
I ran this test:
Declare
  v1  varchar2(4);
  v2  varchar2(4);
  v3  varchar2(4);
Begin
  v1 := ' ';  -- one space
  select nvl(v1,'X'), v1 into v2, v3 from dual;
  message
    ('V2=' || v2 || ', Length(V2) = ' || nvl(Length(v2),0) );
  message
    ('V3=' || v3 || ', Length(V3) = ' || nvl(Length(v3),0) );
End;And I get the following messages:
V2=X, Length(V2) = 1
V3=, Length(V3) = 0Run under SQL Plus, changing Message to DBMS_Output.Put_Line:
V2= , Length(V2) = 1
V3= , Length(V3) = 1I get the correct result, the same as SQL Plus, in Forms 10.1.2.0.2.