Index: src/docsrc/html/changelog.html
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--- src/docsrc/html/changelog.html	(revision 4195)
+++ src/docsrc/html/changelog.html	(working copy)
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 </li><li>The table INFORMATION_SCHEMA.FUNCTION_ALIASES now includes a column TYPE_NAME.
 </li><li>Issue 378: when using views, the wrong values were bound to a parameter in some cases.
 </li><li>Terrence Huang has translated the error messages to Chinese. Thanks a lot!
+</li><li>TRUNC was added as an alias for TRUNCATE
 </li></ul>
 
 <h2>Version 1.3.166 (2012-04-08)</h2>
Index: src/docsrc/help/help.csv
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--- src/docsrc/help/help.csv	(revision 4195)
+++ src/docsrc/help/help.csv	(working copy)
@@ -2785,7 +2785,7 @@
 "
 
 "Functions (Numeric)","TRUNCATE","
-TRUNCATE(numeric, digitsInt)
+{ TRUNC | TRUNCATE } (numeric, digitsInt)
 ","
 Truncates to a number of digits (to the next value closer to 0).
 This method returns a double.
Index: src/main/org/h2/expression/Function.java
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--- src/main/org/h2/expression/Function.java	(revision 4195)
+++ src/main/org/h2/expression/Function.java	(working copy)
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@
         addFunction("TAN", TAN, 1, Value.DOUBLE);
         addFunction("TANH", TANH, 1, Value.DOUBLE);
         addFunction("TRUNCATE", TRUNCATE, 2, Value.DOUBLE);
+        // same as TRUNCATE
+        addFunction("TRUNC", TRUNCATE, 2, Value.DOUBLE);
         addFunction("HASH", HASH, 3, Value.BYTES);
         addFunction("ENCRYPT", ENCRYPT, 3, Value.BYTES);
         addFunction("DECRYPT", DECRYPT, 3, Value.BYTES);
Index: src/test/org/h2/test/test-1.3.txt
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--- src/test/org/h2/test/test-1.3.txt	(revision 4195)
+++ src/test/org/h2/test/test-1.3.txt	(working copy)
@@ -9253,6 +9253,12 @@
 > null 1.0 -10.0
 > rows: 1
 
+select trunc(null, null) en, trunc(1.99, 0) e1, trunc(-10.9, 0) em10 from test;
+> EN   E1  EM10
+> ---- --- -----
+> null 1.0 -10.0
+> rows: 1
+
 select ascii(null) en, ascii('') en, ascii('Abc') e65 from test;
 > EN   EN   E65
 > ---- ---- ---