Re: to_char bug?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Ben Trewern <bendottrewern(at)mowlem(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: to_char bug?
Date: 2005-03-02 10:32:19
Message-ID: 20050302103212.GA4567@svana.org
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If the number is negative there needs to be room for the minus sign...

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:25:02AM -0000, Ben Trewern wrote:
> >From the docs:
>
> "FM suppresses leading zeroes and trailing blanks that would otherwise be
> added to make the output of a pattern be fixed-width"
>
> It works now but for one I don't understand why the space is added in the
> firs place and two I think the docs don't tell the whole story ie leading
> blanks and I assume trailing zeros if applicable.

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