| From: | Francisco Olarte <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ken Tanzer <ken(dot)tanzer(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Suppress decimal point like digits in to_char? |
| Date: | 2016-03-14 18:31:20 |
| Message-ID: | CA+bJJbzZtTxAfinVZbffPao9ihATXjGh6oJups8BbFfDWN-0=w@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi David:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:22 PM, David G. Johnston
<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> But a right-aligning string output routine needs to be used.
...
>> Summarising, any combination can be easily done with a single round of
>> replace.
> See also:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/functions-string.html
> format(formatstr text [, formatarg "any" [, ...] ])
You mean to use it to right align the replaced string ( i.e.
format('%12s',replace(...)) ) or is there a code I do not know off
which can be used to achieve the global result ( I use it but it seems
to be like a restricted sprintf which can not do the supress the zero
stuff ) ?
Francisco Olarte.
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