From: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
To: Abdul Wahab Dahalan <wahab@mimos.my>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Display format for column
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:58:32 +0200
Message-ID: <20040507095832.GB621@zf.jcu.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <409B5205.5030803@mimos.my>
References: <409B5205.5030803@mimos.my>
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:08:21PM +0800, Abdul Wahab Dahalan wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> How do we format column size for displaying data in postgresql.
> for example my data type for customername is varchar(100) and I want to
> display the first 25 chars.
> How should I do that?
"display" a data is a client problem only, but you can select part of
string:
# select substring('qwertyuiopasdfg' from 0 for 8);
substring
-----------
qwertyu
or for your case:
select substring(customername from 0 for 25) FROM yourtab;
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-string.html
Karel
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