Re: zerofill: lost my leading zeroes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: zerofill: lost my leading zeroes
Date
Msg-id 20020320193639.GA15706@wolff.to
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In response to zerofill: lost my leading zeroes  (Vincent Stoessel <vincent@xaymaca.com>)
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:41:46PM -0500,
  Vincent Stoessel <vincent@xaymaca.com> wrote:
> ugh,
> I created an integer  column to hold zip codes and
> forgot that some US states have zips that start with zeroes.
> ie 03455 in new England. There is no zerofill option for
> the integer data type is there?

Either you want to store the zip code as a string instead of a number
or when you print out the number you want to use to_char using a format
of '00000'.

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