At 09:58 AM 11/20/01 -0500, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Using the postgresql TO_CHAR function with Day, DAY, day, Month, MONTH or month as the text argument, extra whitespace is appended to the output. > >AFAIK this is the intended behavior. There's an FM modifier that you >add to the format item to suppress extra whitespace. See the examples >in the manual. > >(Yes, this formatting language is plenty ugly, but don't blame us ... >we're just trying to be Oracle-compatible with it ...)
In case you are short an Oracle manual: MONTH Month name, padded with blanks to 9 characters SQL> select to_char(to_date('2001-01-01','yyyy-mm-dd'),'month') 2 from dual; TO_CHAR(T --------- january > > regards, tom lane > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > >http://archives.postgresql.org > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])