Thread: to_date()

to_date()

From

"Paul "

Date:

02 June 2002, 20:54:43

Can someone explain to me why this happens?
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select to_date('2002-04-29 07:33:55.000','FXYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MM:SS.MS') as rebill_date;rebill_date 
-------------2004-09-30
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Ultimatly I'm doing a select into where the original field is of type "character varying".
Doing
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select fieldname::date as rebill_date
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generates a "ERROR:  Cannot cast type 'character varying' to 'date'" error, but doing
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select fieldname::text::date as rebill_date
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seemes I think I've achieved what I want, but would still be interested in learning about to_date().

Thanks,

Paul
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Re: to_date()

From

Kaare Rasmussen

Date:

03 June 2002, 12:09:52

> Can someone explain to me why this happens?
> ======
> select to_date('2002-04-29 07:33:55.000','FXYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MM:SS.MS') as
> rebill_date; rebill_date
> -------------
>  2004-09-30

If you only want the date:
select to_date('2002-04-29 07:33:55.000','FXYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.MS') as 
rebill_date;

If you want the whole thing:
select to_timestamp('2002-04-29 07:33:55.000','FXYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.MS') 
as rebill_date;

MM is month
MI is minute

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