Add Trim Leading And Trailing Space From String as a Postgres TIL

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+# Trim Leading And Trailing Space From String
+
+PostgreSQL has a bunch of [string
+functions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-string.html),
+including several for doing various string trimming.
+
+We can use the simplest form of `trim` to remove leading and trailing space
+characters from a string. The syntax for calling `trim` is a bit odd relative
+to other PostgreSQL functions and functions in other languages.
+
+Here is the "grammar" as described in the docs:
+
+```
+trim ( [ LEADING | TRAILING | BOTH ] [ characters text ] FROM string text ) → text
+```
+
+We pick `leading`, `trailing`, or `both`, with `both` being the default. Then
+we specify the character(s) we want to remove. This is also optional, the
+default being the space character. Then we say `from` what string we want to
+trim those characters.
+
+Here we remove all sequential spaces from `both` ends of the given string:
+
+```sql
+> select trim(both from '  Taco Cat ');
++----------+
+| btrim    |
+|----------|
+| Taco Cat |
++----------+
+```
+
+To further demonstrate how `trim` works, here we remove all sequences made up
+of any of spaces, uppercase `T`, and lowercase `t` from `both` ends of the
+string:
+
+```sql
+> select trim(both ' Tt' from '  Taco Cat ');
++--------+
+| btrim  |
+|--------|
+| aco Ca |
++--------+
+```