Re: Trunc in Postgres

Your solution works in this example, but when
I take a columnname which type is char(30)
I beome the following error:

ERROR: Cannot cast type character to integer

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Pavel Stehule [mailto:stehule(at)kix(dot)fsv(dot)cvut(dot)cz]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. September 2003 15:56
An: Amin Schoeib
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] Trunc in Postgres

You can try

select CAST(cast('0000000000000000000000004' as NUMERIC(20)) AS varchar);

Pavel
>
> Hi,
> Is there an equivalent for the trunc function of Oracle in Postgres???
> I need to trunc(the zeros) a number which is stored as a char with a
> lot of zeros Like that : 0000000000000000000000000000004
>
> In oracle you can make that by trunc(YOUR_COLUMNNAME,0)
>
> Thanxx
>
> Schoeib
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