joe.guyot wrote:
> greetings all!
>
> [i just became a member]
>
> i have a string data from a view that is a packed field. it
> contains a date, a time and a user's initials. i'm trying to extract
> the date portion in a pg 7 view. the data originally came from a ms
> sql 7 table that has since been converted into a pg 7 table.
>
> in the ms sql 7 view the date was extracted as follows:
>
> convert(timestamp, substring(creat, 1, 8), 120) = 'createdate'
>
> where creat is the packed field from the original table and
> 'createdate' is the extracted date portion. the data would typically
> look like: 200111171623XYX. the result is '2001-11-17'.
>
> i've reviewed documentation, on line books and several threads in
> this and related newsgroups and can't seem to come up with a decent
> solution.
>
> i've tried various combinations of this in a pg 7 view:
>
> to_date(substr(creat,1,8),'YYYY-MM-DD') = 'createdate'
> to_date(substring(creat from 1 for 8),'YYYY-MM-DD') =
> 'createdate'
> to_timestamp(substr(creat,1,8),'YYYY-MM-DD') = 'createdate'
> to_timestamp(substrsting(creat from 1 for 8),'YYYY-MM-DD') =
> 'createdate'
>
> and continually get different errors:
> "bad date external representation 'createdate'"
> or
> "bad timestamp external representation 'createdate'"
Your substring-date isn't in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, but in 'YYYYMMDD'
Regards,
Tomasz Myrta
