Re: Join three fields into one on same table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Join three fields into one on same table
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Msg-id dcc563d10805191435l32e257f0sc82a23f86fedd5b@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Join three fields into one on same table  (jrivero <godsea@gmail.com>)
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Is there a good reason to NOT store the year month and day as a date
instead of this way?

I can think of a lot of very good reasons to store it as a date, not a
lot of reasons to store them broken apart.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:51 AM, jrivero <godsea@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, i need help for a query. I have three fields, year, month and day
> into table and need join and update another field named date on same
> table.
>
> My problem is not that make update query.
>
> With this query have the value of the update:
>> select year || '-' || month || '-' || day || ' 01:00:00' as newdate from table
>
> but this another query not have correct syntax...
>> update table set date=(select year || '-' || month || '-' || day || ' 01:00:00' as newdate from table)
>
> Regards,
> Jordi
>
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