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" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in message
news:794.1109627049@sss.pgh.pa.us...
> "Ben Trewern" <bendottrewern@mowlem.com> 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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