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Re: Simple method to format a string?

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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.
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