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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:43:01 +0200
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Subject: string to date conversion
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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