substr - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Jeff MacDonald
Subject substr
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0010191017510.9479-100000@rage.hub.org
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i noticed that substr behaves a bit different in pgsql than perl

ie select foo from table where substr(foo,1,1) = 'X';

initially i thought it should be substr(foo,0,1) 

just wondering on the reasoning for this offset ?

Jeff MacDonald,

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