diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index 22d4c4e33a983e2b62335321b63c7c7863cff906..0bb6594eab1af6c2957ced4719e69e6b944941d6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1014,12 +1014,12 @@ SELECT '52093.89'::money::numeric::float8; with spaces to the specified width <replaceable>n</>, and are stored and displayed that way. However, the padding spaces are treated as semantically insignificant. Trailing spaces are - disregarded when non-pattern comparing two values of type <type>character</type>, + disregarded when comparing two values of type <type>character</type>, and they will be removed when converting a <type>character</type> value to one of the other string types. Note that trailing spaces <emphasis>are</> semantically significant in <type>character varying</type> and <type>text</type> values, and - when using pattern matching comparisons, e.g. <literal>LIKE</>, + when using pattern matching, e.g. <literal>LIKE</>, regular expressions. </para>