Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aaron J. Seigo
Subject Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 3
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Msg-id 9910191707360E.00654@stilborne
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 3  ("Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
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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
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