I know this isn't the postgres user group, but if anyone has any
insight, I'd sure appreciate it.
Summary: attempting to use to_date on a table value results in a
to_timestamp error. What am I doing wrong?
I have a little database and want to prettyprint some dates on the web
interface.
In /etc/postgres/postgres.conf , I have the following set:
DATESTYLE = 'iso,european'
This is confirmed within psql:
ski=> show datestyle;
DateStyle
-------------------------------
ISO with European conventions
(1 row)
I have a table with a column of type 'date'.
ski=> select starting from visits;
starting
------------
2003-12-14
etc ...
Here's what to_date gets me:
ski=> select to_date (starting, 'DD Mon YYYY') from visits ;
ERROR: to_timestamp(): bad value for MON/Mon/mon
Just for grins, I thought I'd try changing the datestyle:
ski=> set session datestyle = 'postgres,us';
SET
ski=> select starting from visits;
starting
------------
12-14-2003
etc ...
But no matter what datestyle I use, I get that to_timestamp() error when
trying to prettyprint my table.
For the record, I can use to_date in the canonical example just fine:
ski=> select to_date('05 Dec 2000', 'DD Mon YYYY');
to_date
------------
2000-12-05
(1 row)
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monique
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