RPAD

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

The RPAD() pads a string at the right end. See also LPAD.

SELECT rpad('hello', 10, '.');

create.select(rpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')).fetch();

The result being

+------------+
| rpad       |
+------------+
| hello..... |
+------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

rpad(val("hello"), 10, '.')

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS
('hello' & replace(space(10 - len('hello')), ' ', '.'))

-- ASE
('hello' || replicate(
  '.',
  (10 - char_length('hello'))
))

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, DB2, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, 
-- POSTGRES, TERADATA, VERTICA
rpad('hello', 10, '.')

-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
('hello' + replicate(
  '.',
  (10 - len('hello'))
))

-- SQLITE
'hello' || substr("replace"(hex(zeroblob(10)), '00', '.'), 1, 10 - length('hello'))

-- SYBASE
('hello' || repeat(
  '.',
  (10 - length('hello'))
))

-- BIGQUERY, DERBY, EXASOL, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, YUGABYTE
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.16, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : String functions : RPAD

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