| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Table 9.31. to_char Examples |
| Date: | 2026-09-28 19:05:59 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwZ5zQzv1uyoH1UD5ETb7+ArqF2zNXVU4Et+b0_E8bS2sQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Monday, September 28, 2026, PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/functions-matching.html
> Description:
>
> This is not true:
>
> ```html
> to_char(485, 'PL999') '+485'
> ```
>
You are correct. As a practical matter there will always be a space after
the plus sign since the formatting code seems to consumes two places. This
may arguably be a bug, but at this point we should just document the
behavior we have.
David J.
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