X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83135B430A6 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:07:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30327-08 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:07:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu (guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.89.8]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7921B42168 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:07:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: by guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu (Postfix, from userid 4405) id 702871416A2; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:07:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6240D10A528 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:07:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:07:05 -0400 From: Yasir Malik To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Datatype conversion help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200307/86 X-Sequence-Number: 14200 Suppose I have an integer between 0 and 99 and I want to covert it to string, and pad leading zeros if neccessary. For example, 1 => 01 10 => 10 I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a string that is two charecters, but there isn't a leading zero incase I have the number 2 as input. Any ideas? Thanks. Yasir