In our postgre database is a decimal field with format YYMMDDhhmmss.9999999999 where the 9s are random digits. I'm trying to strip off just the YYMMDD and put it in date form.
So far I came up with: SUBSTR(TO_CHAR(rec_num,99999999999),1,6) AS Date which returns YMMDD. For example where the rec_num is 30608124143.47069519725 the above functions return 30608. I tried wrapping another TO_CHAR around it to try to format it to a date but this seems like it's a bit much for this purpose. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -David ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
