Re: A cronjob for copying a table from Oracle - Mailing list pgsql-general

Alexander Farber, 10.12.2010 12:53:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Thomas Kellerer<spam_eater@gmx.net>  wrote:
>>> And I'm not sure how to copy the Oracle's strange DATE
>>> column best into PostgreSQL, without losing precision?
>>
>> Oracle's DATE includes a time part as well.
>>
>> So simply use a timestamp in PostgreSQL and everything should be fine.
>
>
> Yes, but how can I copy Oracle's DATE into PostgreSQL's timestamp?
>
> (I realize that this more an Oracle question, sorry)
>
> What format string should I take for Oracle's to_date() function,
> I don't see a format string to get epoch seconds there

I have no idea what you are doing in PHP, but why don't you simply generate a valid date/time literal for Postgres
usingthe to_char() function? 

Something like

SELECT 'TIMESTAMP '''||to_char(QDATETIME, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')||''''
FROM qtrack;

That literal can directly be used in an INSERT statement for PostgreSQL

Regards
Thomas