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From: George Weaver <georgew1@mts.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Looks are important
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:12:28 -0600
Message-ID: <00ac01c3a96a$a165b290$6400a8c0@Dell4500> (raw)

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to concatenate two fields through a query:

SELECT RPAD(no,30,' ') || tableb.kind FROM tablea 
WHERE tablea.kind = tableb.kind

The result gives (for example):

4595448                       Green
5966                          Yellow
106-60033                     Green
15-94-387                     Red
217-991173                    Blue

What I would like to have is better alignment:

4595448                     Green
5966                          Yellow
106-60033                  Green
15-94-387                   Red
217-991173                 Blue

Is there some kind of encoding or other string options that will result in better alignment than what I've tried with Rpad?

Thanks in advance,
George

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