On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:34:28 -0700
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Summary: attempting to use to_date on a table value results in a
> to_timestamp error. What am I doing wrong?
You have to tell PostgreSQL the format of the string date you are
passing to to_timestamp (or to to_date) by parameter.
If you say 'DD Mon YYYY' by the 2nd param then postgre will expect
something like '22 Dez 2003' as the 1st param.
But according to your postgres.conf, when you select a date postgres
returns something in the format 'YYYY-MM-DD'. So change your formating
string to this.
Take a look:
scorphus=> insert into date_test values('2003-12-22');
INSERT 16979 1
scorphus=> select * from date_test;
date
------------
2003-12-22
(1 row)
scorphus=> select to_timestamp(date, 'DD Mon YYYY') from date_test;
ERROR: to_timestamp(): bad value for MON/Mon/mon
scorphus=> select to_timestamp(date, 'YYYY-MM-DD') from date_test;
to_timestamp
------------------------
2003-12-22 00:00:00-02
(1 row)
Hope that helps.
Please excuse my English.
Regards,
Pablo Aguiar.
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