Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com> writes: > On 2/13/16, Deven Phillips <deven.phillips@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to convert a series of ISO8601 strings into TIMESTAMPs for use >> with a function: ...
> If your data is already in a correct ISO8601 format, you can use a > direct cast to timestamptz type:
Yeah. 95% of the time, the answer to "how to use to_timestamp()" is "don't". The native input converter for the date/timestamp/timestamptz data types is perfectly capable of parsing most common date formats, with a lot less muss and fuss than to_timestamp. At worst you might have to give it a hint about DMY vs. MDY field ordering via the DateStyle setting. If your input is YMD order then you don't have to worry about that at all.
