[HACKERS] one-off error in to_char formatting

[Erik Rijkers]

ISTM this is a bug, no?

(9.0devel, cvs 2010.03.04 01:30)

replicas=# select length( to_char(1, '0') );
 length

  2
(1 row)

There seems to be an erroneously prefixed space:

replicas=# select '' || to_char(1, repeat('0',8)) || '';
  ?column?
-
  0001
(1 row)


replicas=# select version();
 version
--
 PostgreSQL 9.0devel-standby on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc 
(GCC) 4.4.3, 64-bit
(1 row)




Erik Rijkers


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Re: [HACKERS] one-off error in to_char formatting

[Tom Lane]

Erik Rijkers e...@xs4all.nl writes:
 There seems to be an erroneously prefixed space:

No, that's where the sign goes.  You can suppress it with FM,
if you don't want fixed-width output.

regards, tom lane

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