Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Convert date and time colums to datetime
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2025, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> 2) If you really need a timestamp the work is already done, instead of 
> building on the fly.

Adrian,

As each row in the table already has both a date column and a time column I
don't know if I 'really' need a timestamp. When would a timestamp be really
needed?

> select ('10/19/2025'::date + '07:50'::time)::timestamptz;

Yes, I saw that on the doc page. This requires manually changing each row in
the table rather than using a date/time condition/function to to create the
single timestamp column. So, apparently there's not a way to modify the
table other than by hand.

Thanks,

Rich