Submitted by: Wojtek (dlpl)

I have query using union all to add many records to database at one time. But in each varchar field spaces are added at the end.
There is a sample demonstrating problem:

SELECT
COL,
REPLACE(COL, ' ', '.'),
CHAR_LENGTH(COL),
CHAR_LENGTH(TRIM(COL))

FROM
(
SELECT 'a' AS COL FROM RDB$DATABASE
UNION ALL
SELECT 'bbbbbbb' FROM RDB$DATABASE
UNION ALL
SELECT 'cc' FROM RDB$DATABASE
)

And result:

COL REPLACE CHAR_LENGTH CHAR_LENGTH1
a a...... 7 1
bbbbbbb bbbbbbb 7 7
cc cc..... 7 2