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Posted by: Владислав Сокол
Date: December 22, 2019 10:55PM

The topic "The CHAR and VARCHAR types" ( https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/char.html ) contains the next phrase:

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If a given value is stored into the CHAR(4) and VARCHAR(4) columns, the values retrieved from the columns are not always the same because trailing spaces are removed from CHAR columns upon retrieval. The following example illustrates this difference:
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But following example demonstrates that trailing spaces are removed from VARCHAR type field and NOT removed from CHAR.

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