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From Kovacs Zoltan Sandor
Subject Re: to_char() causes backend to close connection
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.05.10012141645090.9225-100000@pc10.radnoti-szeged.sulinet.hu
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In response to Re: to_char() causes backend to close connection  (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
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>  A problem (IMHO it's not problem) with 'now()::abstime' is in 7.1 too. 
> But why you not use directly now()?
My aim is to get this format for the time '5 minutes ago'. So I need
something like

select to_char(now()-'5 minutes','YYMMDDHH24MI')

but this doesn't work due to the missing type conversion.

Any idea? TIA, Zoltan

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