From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Kumar <sgnerd@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: psql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with timestamp - Pls help
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:42:30 -0400
Message-ID: <20527.1063986150@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <038501c37eaf$ff68a310$7502a8c0@hdsc.com>
References: <038501c37eaf$ff68a310$7502a8c0@hdsc.com>
"Kumar" <sgnerd@yahoo.com.sg> writes:
> I wanted to update one column of my table with now() or timestamp. And I wa=
> nt that timestamp of format ------------------------
> 2003-09-19 18:39:08.13
It sounds like you simply want to limit the fractional precision of the
value. Why don't you just declare the column as timestamp(2) ? All
this fooling around with substrings is inefficient and doesn't have much
to do with your real intent anyhow.
regards, tom lane
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