Re: Suppress decimal point like digits in to_char?

On Sunday, March 13, 2016, Ken Tanzer <ken(dot)tanzer(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi. Is there a way with to_char to suppress a decimal point, like a
> leading or trailing 0, so that integers will not have them, but non-ints
> will? I'm hoping I'm missing something easy. Thanks.
>
> Ken
>
> SELECT val,to_char(val::decimal(6,2),'FM999,999D99') FROM
> ( SELECT 1 AS val UNION SELECT 1.05 AS val) foo;
>
> val | to_char
> ------+---------
> 1 | 1.
> 1.05 | 1.05
>
>
>
Not seeing a native way to do so - and I'd question doing so as a general
rule - though you know your domain. If you must have this you will want to
utilize regexp_replace to identify the situation and replace it. A simple
"\.$" check and a substring would work also.

David J.