Description:
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I'd like to continue thread:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25777
Because it's already closed I wasn't able to add my comments there.

By disabling rtriming of text fields, new bug was introduced - empty strings are returned as single space. I know that is because of MS DBLib, but there is no problem to fix that in PHP.

It is very rare that someone will store in database single space, but storing empty spaces is very common. So in my opinion most common usage should be considered.
For example: if ( empty($text_from_db) ) { // do something }

In my opinion ' ' should replaced by ''. 

I don't how to submit this to CVS, so I put it here:

ext/mssql/mssql.c line 805:

case SQLTEXT: {
	int length;
	char *data = charcol(offset);

	length=dbdatlen(mssql_ptr->link,offset);
#if ilia_0
	while (length>0 && data[length-1] == ' ') { /* nuke trailing whitespace */
		length--;
	}
#endif
	if ( length==1 && data[0]==' ' ) { /* single space to empty string */
		length=0;
	}
	
	Z_STRVAL_P(result) = estrndup(data,length);
	Z_STRLEN_P(result) = length;
	Z_TYPE_P(result) = IS_STRING;
	break;
}


Reproduce code:
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//mssql_connect(...);
var_dump(mssql_fetch_row(mssql_query("SELECT ''")));

Expected result:
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array(1) { [0]=> string(0) "" }

Actual result:
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array(1) { [0]=> string(1) " " }