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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Joshua Gooding <JGooding@ttitech.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: oracle to postgres migration question
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* Joshua Gooding (JGooding@ttitech.net) wrote:
> I'm looking for the postgres equivalent of oracles: set numwidth =20
> command.  Is there an equivalent?

Nothing really equivalent, I don't believe..  You would need to wrap
the column(s) you care about using to_char().

	Thanks,

		Stephen

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