From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
To: David Olbersen <DOlbersen@stbernard.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Datatype conversion help
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:29:44 +0100
Message-ID: <200307090929.44336.dev@archonet.com> (raw)
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<Pine.SGI.4.51.0307081715130.4138513@guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 10:19 pm, Yasir Malik wrote:
> Yes, Mr. Nachbaur helped me out. Thanks. I don't think I can do
> to_char(<whatever date>, 'MM-DD-YYYY)
> because the date fields are originally stored as separate integers in my
> schema (they have to be that way). I still can't understand why the extra
> space was added after the dash. It just made my life more miserable.
> Yasir
You are not the only one it makes miserable. I believe it's there to provide
compatibility with Oracle/some other db. Their function does it so ours
should too. Very strange behaviour though.
--
Richard Huxton
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