novice schrieb:
> I resolved it by doing this - is there another more efficient method?
> And yes, the text file I am working with doesn't have any TABs
>
> 5162 OK SM 06/12/04 06:12
>
> substr("data", 30, 2)||'-'||substr("data", 27,
> 2)||'-20'||substr("data", 24, 2)||substr("data", 32, 6) as
> inspection_date
You could try to_date() - see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-formatting.html
Regards
Tino