>From the docs:

"FM suppresses leading zeroes and trailing blanks that would otherwise be 
added to make the output of a pattern be fixed-width"

It works now but for one I don't understand why the space is added in the 
firs place and two I think the docs don't tell the whole story ie leading 
blanks and I assume trailing zeros if applicable.

Regards,

Ben

"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> "Ben Trewern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It seems that to_char(1, '000') gives a string " 001" with a space in 
>> front.
>> Is this a bug?
>
> No.
>
> Possibly you want 'FM000'.
>
> regards, tom lane
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