Hi,
I have tried the same in PostgreSQL 8.0.1 and it is working fine. I have used
following example for testing
create table test1
(
date varchar(10)
)
insert into test1 values('2005/04/22')
select date::timestamp from test1
Regards,
R.Muralidharan
-Original Message-
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:30:02AM +0200, Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:21:26AM +0200, Christoph Haller wrote:
> >
> > select '2005/04/22'::text::timestamp ;
> > timestamp
> > -
> > 2005-04-22 00:00:00
> > (1 row)
> >
> > works for me.
>
> It w
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:21:26AM +0200, Christoph Haller wrote:
>
> select '2005/04/22'::text::timestamp ;
> timestamp
> -
> 2005-04-22 00:00:00
> (1 row)
>
> works for me.
It works fine !!!
Thanks so much for your help.
I missed the '::text' intermediate co
Jerome Alet wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an existing Pg database which, please don't ask why,
> stores dates as varchar attributes in the form '/MM/DD'
>
> I'm not allowed to modify the tables to use 'timestamp' instead,
> so I'd like to convert on the fly when retrieving datas with
> s
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 02:38:43PM +0530, Ramakrishnan Muralidharan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried the same in PostgreSQL 8.0.1 and it is working fine. I have
> used following example for testing
>
> create table test1
> (
> date varchar(10)
> )
>
> insert into test1 values('2005/0
