From: Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: string to date conversion
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:43:01 +0200
Message-ID: <20050422084301.GB12176@mail.librelogiciel.com> (raw)
Hi,
I'm working on an existing Pg database which, please don't ask why,
stores dates as varchar attributes in the form 'YYYY/MM/DD'
I'm not allowed to modify the tables to use 'timestamp' instead,
so I'd like to convert on the fly when retrieving datas with
select.
When I do :
select mydatefield::timestamp from mytable;
There's an error saying that converting from varchar to date is
not possible
How can I do this ?
Thanks in advance
Jerome Alet
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