From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: trim(both) problem?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:45:59 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20080425134220.S8763@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4812402D.7080404@encs.concordia.ca>
References: <4812402D.7080404@encs.concordia.ca>
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Emi Lu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Isn't this a bug about trim both.
>
> select trim(both '<BR/>' from '<BR/>ROI Engineering Inc.');
> btrim
> ---------------------
> OI Engineering Inc.
> (1 row)
>
>
> "R" is missing? How?
Trim doesn't do what you think it does. The '<BR/>' in the above is not a
string to remove it is a list of characters to remove. Thus, the R is
removed as it matches a character given.
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