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Re: ask: select right(column) ???

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Hello Hendra,
there is no function right(column, n-Chars), but you can use substring(column-name from offset for num_chars) in combination with char_length for getting the right-n-characters as f. e.:

select substring(column from (char_length(column) - 3) for 4) from table

Ludwig



>Dear all,
>
>I have simple question
>I tried following code
>
> select right(column, number_of_character) from table
>
>but it didn't work, saying that pg doesn't have the function
>is there any way to achieve such output?
>
>honestly I have no idea that such simple feature doesn't exist in postgresql
>or am I wrong? since I look at SQL Key Words table and it's written as
>reserved
>
>Thank you
>Regards
>Hendra

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