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Request #66345 The trailing spaces are removed on varchar and lvarchar types.
Submitted: 2013-12-24 10:35 UTC Modified: 2016-05-12 10:07 UTC
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From: josemalonsom at yahoo dot es Assigned: vnkbabu (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: PDO_INFORMIX (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.5.7 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2013-12-24 10:35 UTC] josemalonsom at yahoo dot es
Description:
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The PDO Informix driver trims trailing spaces on varchar and lvarchar types.

CSDK: 4.10UC2DE
PHP: 5.3.10, 5.5.7
PDO_INFORMIX: 1.2.7, 1.3.1
Informix: IDS 11.50.UC9DE


Test script:
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  $con = new PDO($dsn, $user, $passwd);

  $sql = 'create table test_varchar (test_varchar varchar(10),test_lvarchar lvarchar(10))';

  $con->exec($sql);

  $sql = 'insert into test_varchar(test_varchar, test_lvarchar) values ("foo ", "foo ")';

  $con->exec($sql);

  $sql = 'select * from test_varchar';

  $row = $con->query($sql)->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

  print strlen($row['TEST_VARCHAR']) . "\n";
  print strlen($row['TEST_LVARCHAR']) . "\n";


Expected result:
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The fetched strings had to be the same that the inserted strings.

Actual result:
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The trailing spaces of the strings are removed (the spaces are saved in the database, it can be checked with the dbaccess command).

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 [2014-02-12 10:05 UTC] rahulpriyadarshi@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: rahulpriyadarshi
 [2014-02-12 10:05 UTC] rahulpriyadarshi@php.net
This is the default behavior PDO_Informix have with varchar, lvarchar type.

Do you wants to get trailing spaces also? If yes then we will look into the possibility to provide this support.
 [2014-02-13 19:22 UTC] josemalonsom at yahoo dot es
-Type: Bug +Type: Feature/Change Request
 [2014-02-13 19:22 UTC] josemalonsom at yahoo dot es
The dbaccess client returns the trailing spaces in this cases so it is not a limitation imposed by the RDBMS, i think that the behaviour expected should be that the data is returned such as were inserted, without modifications, the spaces are also data.

I assume that the default behaviour can't be changed or it can break the code already existing but i think that an option to change the default behaviour would be useful.
 [2016-02-07 15:46 UTC] rahulpriyadarshi@php.net
-Assigned To: rahulpriyadarshi +Assigned To: vnkbabu
 [2016-05-12 10:07 UTC] vnkbabu@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Not a bug
 [2016-05-12 10:07 UTC] vnkbabu@php.net
I did the debug of PDO_INFORMIX, i printed the fetched values right after issuing the SQLFetchScroll() API, i can see we are getting the trimmed down string from the informix ODBC driver.


(gdb)
1029            rc = SQLFetchScroll((SQLHSTMT)stmt_res->hstmt, direction, (SQLINTEGER) offset);
(gdb)  p stmt_res->columns[0]
$8 = {name = 0x7ffff6271eb0, namelen = 12, data_type = 12, returned_type = PDO_PARAM_STR, data_size = 10, nullable = 1, scale = 0, out_length = 3, data = {l_val = 140737323217184,
    str_val = 0x7ffff6283120 "foo"}}
(gdb)  p stmt_res->columns[1]
$9 = {name = 0x7ffff6271f00, namelen = 13, data_type = 12, returned_type = PDO_PARAM_STR, data_size = 10, nullable = 1, scale = 0, out_length = 3, data = {l_val = 140737323217232,
    str_val = 0x7ffff6283150 "foo"}}

I also see the similar discussion with ODBC application,
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014438618

If you disagree please raise an PMR to Informix Client team.
 
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