Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 3

From: "Aaron J(dot) Seigo" <aaron(at)gtv(dot)ca>
To: "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 3
Date: 1999-10-19 23:06:12
Message-ID: 9910191707360E.00654@stilborne
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hi...

> What I would like would be the ability to attach a format to a column, so
> that text could be truncated at 25 characters or floats lined up with a
> specified number of decimal places. (May be we can already and I've missed
> it?) I would particularly like to be able to do text wrapping within a
> column and totalling of numeric columns:

i miss this from oracle as well...

>
> Do you think there's any place for this in PostgreSQL? Perhaps it needs a
> separate front-end tool.

psql would seem the proper place for this?

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Aaron J. Seigo
Sys Admin

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