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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Richard Rowell <richard@bowmansystems.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: to_date() confusion
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:06:03 -0600
Message-ID: <20030108150603.GB27870@wolff.to> (raw)
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:49:00 -0600,
  Richard Rowell <richard@bowmansystems.com> wrote:
> I'm confused.  How do I massage the integer 10102 into the date
> 2002-01-01?
> 
> cmi=> select to_char(10102,'000000');
>  to_char 
> ---------
>   010102
> (1 row)

Note the leading space in the returned row. That is probably what is making
the difference.  You probably want to use to_char(10102,'FM000000').



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