From: Keith Worthington <keithw@narrowpathinc.com>
To: Walker, Jed S <Jed_Walker@cable.comcast.com>
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Make year 01/01/0001 but leave timestamp alone
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:14:56 -0400
Message-ID: <20050802161204.M17641@narrowpathinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A59B6AA01F1874283EA66C976ED51FC4663BB@COENGEXCMB01.cable.comcast.com>
References: <4A59B6AA01F1874283EA66C976ED51FC4663BB@COENGEXCMB01.cable.comcast.com>
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:49:19 -0600, Walker, Jed S wrote
> I have a situation where we have a timestamp column but in special cases
> we want to set the date to '01/01/0001' and leave the timestamp alone.
> For example, '11/04/2005 10:30:05' would become '01/01/0001
> 10:30:05'. I've been going through the various date time functions
> but don't see a simple way to do this. Can someone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jed
Jed,
There may be a more elegant way to do it but this is the first thing that lept
to my mind.
SELECT '01/01/0001'::date,
now()::time,
( '01/01/0001'::date::varchar
|| ' '
|| now()::time::varchar
)::timestamp;
Kind Regards,
Keith
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