REVERSE function
The REVERSE function operates on a string and returns the characters in reverse order.
For example, reverse('abcde')
returns edcba
. This function works
on numeric and date data types as well as character data types; however, in most cases it
has practical value for character strings.
Syntax
REVERSE ( expression )
Argument
- expression
-
An expression with a character, date, timestamp, or numeric data type that represents the target of the character reversal. All expressions are implicitly converted to variable-length character strings. Trailing blanks in fixed-width character strings are ignored.
Return type
REVERSE returns a VARCHAR.
Examples
Select five distinct city names and their corresponding reversed names from the USERS table:
select distinct city as cityname, reverse(cityname) from users order by city limit 5; cityname | reverse ---------+---------- Aberdeen | needrebA Abilene | enelibA Ada | adA Agat | tagA Agawam | mawagA (5 rows)
Select five sales IDs and their corresponding reversed IDs cast as character strings:
select salesid, reverse(salesid)::varchar from sales order by salesid desc limit 5; salesid | reverse --------+--------- 172456 | 654271 172455 | 554271 172454 | 454271 172453 | 354271 172452 | 254271 (5 rows)