Re: Date style handling changes between 7.4.12 and 8.2.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Glaesemann
Subject Re: Date style handling changes between 7.4.12 and 8.2.4
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Msg-id B1BE5464-5FA0-4655-B4D5-8BBA8696CDFA@seespotcode.net
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In response to Date style handling changes between 7.4.12 and 8.2.4  (Adam Witney <awitney@sgul.ac.uk>)
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On Jun 12, 2007, at 4:04 , Adam Witney wrote:

> bugasbase_070529=# insert into date_test values('Wed Jul 11 10:51:14
> GMT+01:00 2001');
> ERROR:  invalid input syntax for type date: "Wed Jul 11 10:51:14 GMT
> +01:00
> 2001"

> I have found date_trunc and extract in the docs,

Both date_trunc and extract work on date and timestamp datatypes.
What you are looking for is something to convert a string to a date:
to_date should work:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-formatting.html

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net



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