Is there any way of "padding" an integer, similar to how, in perl, I would
do:

printf("%03d", 1);

to get:

001

Specifically, I'm looking to do this in a pl/pgsql function ... like to
avoid moving to pl/php or pl/perl if I can ... but, from what I've been
able to find, I suspect I'm not going to have much of a choice ...

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:57:25AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Is there any way of "padding" an integer, similar to how, in perl, I would
> do:
>
> printf("%03d", 1);
>
> to get:
>
> 001

test=> SELECT to_char(1, '000');
to_char
---------
001
(1 row)

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/i...ormatting.html

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