Jonathan Ellis wrote:
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> > I went to fix this and then realized I still don't have an adequate spec
> > of how Oracle defines these functions. It would seem logical, for
> > example, that lpad might truncate on the left instead of the right,
> > ie lpad('abcd', 3, 'whatever') might yield 'bcd'
> I went to fix this and then realized I still don't have an adequate spec
> of how Oracle defines these functions. It would seem logical, for
> example, that lpad might truncate on the left instead of the right,
> ie lpad('abcd', 3, 'whatever') might yield 'bcd' not 'abc'. Would
> someone check