-;; In the wild world of databases, trailing spaces aren't generally
-;; significant, since e.g. "LARRY " and "LARRY " are the same string
-;; stored in different fixed-width fields. OCI drops trailing spaces
-;; for us in some cases but apparently not for fields of fixed
-;; character width, e.g.
-;;
-;; (dbi:sql "create table employees (name char(15), job char(15), city
-;; char(15), rate float)" :db orcl :types :auto)
-;; In order to map the "same string" property above onto Lisp equality,
-;; we drop trailing spaces in all cases:
-