On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Francisco Olarte <fola...@peoplecall.com> wrote:
> Hi; > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:53 AM, David G. Johnston > <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday, March 13, 2016, Ken Tanzer <ken.tan...@gmail.com> wrote: > .... > > Typically if I'm going to format any currency amount with pennies I would > > format all values, even those with zero pennies, to the same precision. > > Typically when displaying such amounts I'd right-justify the values and > thus > > cause the decimals to line up. > > But a right-aligning string output routine needs to be used. > > > cdrs=> select val, tc, '"'||tc||'"' as quoted, > '"'||regexp_replace(tc,'\.$',' ')||'"' as replaced from (select val, > to_char(val::decimal(6,2),'FM999,990D99') as tc from (values > (1234),(1.05),(0)) as v(val)) as w; > val | tc | quoted | replaced > ------+--------+----------+------------ > 1234 | 1,234. | "1,234." | "1,234 " > 1.05 | 1.05 | "1.05" | "1.05" > 0 | 0. | "0." | "0 " > (3 rows) > > Summarising, any combination can be easily done with a single round of > replace. > > See also: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/functions-string.html format(formatstr text [, formatarg "any" [, ...] ]) David J.
