On Jun 20, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Emi Lu wrote: > Good morning, > > Is there a simply method in psql to format a string? > > For example, adding a space to every three consecutive letters: > > abcdefgh -> *** *** *** > > Thanks a lot! > Emi I'm unaware of such a function (it seems like a generic format() function's arguments would be so complex as to be almost unusable) but you can make use of locales to do some formatting for you. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/locale.html. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general