to_date() - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Paul
Subject to_date()
Date
Msg-id 20020603005347.29190.qmail@operamail.com
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Responses Re: to_date()  (Kaare Rasmussen <kar@kakidata.dk>)
List pgsql-sql
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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