Re: where'd the spaces come from - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: where'd the spaces come from
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Msg-id 003a01c11366$a6495420$1001a8c0@archonet.com
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In response to where'd the spaces come from  (Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>)
Responses Re: where'd the spaces come from  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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From: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>

> psql -c "select t.tregion || '/' || to_char(t.tnumber,'000') || '-' ||
> to_char(m.mnumber,'00') as unitno from teams t, members m
> where m.mteam = t.tid;"
>    unitno
> -------------
>  SW/ 041- 03
>  SW/ 041- 05

Looks like a buglet in to_char()s handling of numbers (unless I
misunderstand the way the formatting is supposed to work).

select '[' || to_char(12,'x000') || ']';?column?
----------[x 012]

If you're running the current version, might be worth posting a bug report.
You can work around it with something like:

... substr(to_char(t.tnumber,'000'),2,3) ...

HTH

- Richard Huxton



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