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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:11:37 -0600
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: padding an integer ...
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:57:25AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Is there any way of "padding" an integer, similar to how, in perl, I would 
> do:
> 
> printf("%03d", 1);
> 
> to get:
> 
> 001

test=> SELECT to_char(1, '000');
 to_char 
---------
  001
(1 row)

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-formatting.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr