recasting to timestamp from varchar - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kirk Wythers
Subject recasting to timestamp from varchar
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Msg-id 5B20B39F-5231-4923-954F-51E06E3BFA3E@umn.edu
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I am trying to re-cast a column as a timestamp>

ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp;
ERROR:  column "time2" cannot be cast to type timestamp without time zone

The column time2 is currently a varchar. I actually do not want to mess with time zones, but it seems that postgres will not let me do this. The actual values in the column time2 look like this:

7/15/08 12:00

Is this possible? 

Thanks in advance.

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