Re: Display format for column

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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