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* Display format for column
@ 2004-05-07 09:08 Abdul Wahab Dahalan <wahab@mimos.my>
2004-05-07 09:58 ` Re: Display format for column Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
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From: Abdul Wahab Dahalan @ 2004-05-07 09:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
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?
can I do something like:
psql > column customername format a25
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* Re: Display format for column
2004-05-07 09:08 Display format for column Abdul Wahab Dahalan <wahab@mimos.my>
@ 2004-05-07 09:58 ` Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
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From: Karel Zak @ 2004-05-07 09:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Abdul Wahab Dahalan <wahab@mimos.my>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
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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