From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: juerg.rietmann@pup.ch
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to cast this ?
Date: 12 Sep 2002 10:45:54 +0100
Message-ID: <1031823954.18151.1.camel@linda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF44E0446D.F551C2BF-ONC1256C32.00331D16-C1256C32.003397BB@pup.ch>
References: <OF44E0446D.F551C2BF-ONC1256C32.00331D16-C1256C32.003397BB@pup.ch>
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 10:22, juerg.rietmann@pup.ch wrote:
> Hello there
>
> I have a db table with two char fields :
>
> log_date char(10)
> log_time char(8)
>
> I added a new field log_timestamp of type timestamptz
>
> How do I take the data from log_date and log_time and put it into
> log_timestamp ?
>
> update log set log_timestamp = cast (log_date as timestamp) || cast
> (log_time as timestamp)
>
> is not working.
I don't know what format you have your dates and times in, but maybe
this will work:
CAST (log_date || ' ' || log_time) AS TIMESTAMP
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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