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To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Convert date and time colums to datetime
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:53:56 -0700
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On 10/19/25 07:43, Rich Shepard wrote:
> The database has a table with separate date and time columns.
>
> 1. Are there benefits to merging the two into a single timestamp column?
1) One less column to fetch from.
2) If you really need a timestamp the work is already done, instead of
building on the fly.
>
> 2. If so, how would I do this? (Reading date/time operators and functions
> doc page hasn't shown me one.)
select ('10/19/2025'::date + '07:50'::time)::timestamptz;
timestamptz
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2025-10-19 07:50:00-07
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> TIA,
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> Rich
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