Question

I have this table that I would like to select values from. The thing is that I would like to get the exact amount of length in the output of my select as I have in my table.
For example:

CREATE TABLE myschema.test_table
(
 id serial NOT NULL,
 otyp CHARACTER VARYING(3),
 fname CHARACTER VARYING(8),
 age integer
) WITH(OIDS=FALSE);

And let’s say that this table contain

 id | otyp | fname  | age 
----+------+--------+-----
  1 | aa   | gustav |  20
(1 row)

SELECT id || otyp || fname || age FROM myschema.test_table;

This would give me this result:

1aagustav20

I want the output to be

1aa gustav  20

Any help would appreciated!

Answer 1

I solved the problem!

SELECT id 
   || RPAD(otyp, 3, ' ') 
   || RPAD(fname, 8, ' ') 
   || age 
FROM 
    myschema.test_table;