Peter Koukoulis <pkoukoulis@gmail.com> writes: > I am unsure as to why the hrs, mins and seconds do not appear for a date > column.
Uh, because it's a date.
> When performing the exact same queries in Oracle, I get the full date > formatted to "yyyymmddhh24miss", but cannot get the same for PostgreSQL, > for example:
Oracle has a nonstandard notion of what "date" means, I believe. You probably want to use type "timestamp", and the to_timestamp() function, in PG if you want behavior similar to what Oracle is doing.
