On Wed, 7 May 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
Hey Josh, how goes?
> > Bottom line: there is no way to return a MM-DD-YYYY value?
>
> Really easy, actually:
> SELECT to_char(datefield, 'MM-DD-YYYY');
Thanks for this (thanks to Bruno and Tom as well!)
This does the trick for me:
SELECT TO_CHAR(CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '1 MONTH','MM-DD-YYYY');
> One of the things on my todo list (Item #18, though) is a pl/perl function
> that will accept any reasonable US date and return ISO standard for insert;
> I'll post it to the list when I'm done (maybe next week).
Excellent!
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