Re: Make year 01/01/0001 but leave timestamp alone - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:49:19 -0600, Walker, Jed S wrote
> I have a situation where we have a timestamp column but in special cases
> we want to set the date to '01/01/0001' and leave the timestamp alone.
> For example, '11/04/2005 10:30:05' would become '01/01/0001
> 10:30:05'. I've been going through the various date time functions
> but don't see a simple way to do this. Can someone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jed

Jed,

There may be a more elegant way to do it but this is the first thing that lept
to my mind.

SELECT '01/01/0001'::date,
       now()::time,
       (    '01/01/0001'::date::varchar
         || ' '
         || now()::time::varchar
       )::timestamp;

Kind Regards,
Keith