Inserting 5 characters into char(10) does not produce 5 padding spaces

if they are two-byte multibyte characters. Same thing can be happen
if octet_length(multibyte_chars) == n where n is char(n).
Long standing bug since 7.3 days. Per report and fix from Yoshiyuki Asaba.

src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c,v 1.129.2.1 2002/12/27 20:06:28 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c,v 1.129.2.2 2005/05/24 23:52:02 ishii Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 #include "catalog/pg_operator.h"
 #include "catalog/pg_proc.h"
+#include "mb/pg_wchar.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "nodes/makefuncs.h"
 #include "nodes/params.h"
@@ -979,7 +980,13 @@ exprTypmod(Node *expr)
 				{
 					case BPCHAROID:
 						if (!con->constisnull)
-							return VARSIZE(DatumGetPointer(con->constvalue));
+						{
+							int32 len = VARSIZE(DatumGetPointer(con->constvalue));
+
+							if (pg_database_encoding_max_length() > 1)
+								len = pg_mbstrlen_with_len(VARDATA(DatumGetPointer(con->constvalue)), len);
+							return len;
+						}
 						break;
 					default:
 						break;