From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Ludwig Lim <lud_nowhere_man@yahoo.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Mailing List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Formatting zeroes
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:33:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200209170533.g8H5XQq29077@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-1649734@davinci.ethosmedia.com>
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Ludwig,
>
> > I'm trying to use SQL to generate a formatted
> > report. The "to_char(numeric,'FM9,999,999,999.99')"
> > function works when I use it format numbers with
> > decimal points and appropriate commas.
> > Is there a format specifier in the to_char function
> > that it will display 0 as "0" or "0.0"?
>
> "to_char(numeric,'FM9,999,999,999.09')"
And we know it is a bug:
* to_char(0,'FM999.99') returns a period, to_char(1,'FM999.99') does not
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