On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Pesko wrote:
> Never mind. Just figured it out. Need to grab the substring from 2 for 8
> from the to_char result because it holds character number 1 reserv ed for +
> or - signs. + is default or white space. I think that is the reason. Any
> other input?????
You might want to try the FM format on the to_char string...
sszabo=# select to_date(to_char(20020101, 'FM99999999'),'yyyymmdd');
to_date
------------
2002-01-01
(1 row)
