Re: to_char with time - Mailing list pgsql-sql

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Try using current_timestamp instead of current_time. This works for me in a
SELECT:</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font color="navy" face="Courier New"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"; 
color:navy">to_char(current_timestamp + '1 MONTH AGO', 'YYMM') as ‘reference’</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
color="navy"face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Cheers,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">-p</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font face="Tahoma"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br /><b><span
style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b>pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]
<b><spanstyle="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b></span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">chester</span></font><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">c young<br /><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
</span></font><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Wednesday, 14
June2006</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
</span></font><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">2:10
PM</span></font><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><br /><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> pgsql-sql@postgresql.org<br
/><b><spanstyle="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [SQL] to_char with time</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:36.0pt"><fontface="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">this
doesnot work: select to_char(current_time,'HH24:MI')<br /><br /> what am I missing?  is it possible to format a time
columnin a select?<br /><br /> thanks,<br /> stumped, aka, </span></font>chester<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><font
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