X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60D9B430DB for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:51:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14416-07 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:50:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from exchange.hq.openratings.com (unknown [141.149.165.226]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3866DB43A02 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:50:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from openratings.com (cancun.hq.openratings.com [10.0.0.225]) by exchange.hq.openratings.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NXY169KG; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:50:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0C9C84.5000808@openratings.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:51:48 -0400 From: Dmitry Tkach User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yasir Malik Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Datatype conversion help References: <1057695693.24179.0.camel@localhost> <3F0C99E5.4090205@openratings.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200307/114 X-Sequence-Number: 14228 Yasir Malik wrote: >I used trim and here's what I came up with: >to_date(trim(to_char(yr, '9999') || trim(to_char(mn, '00')) || >trim(to_char(dy, '00'))), 'YYYYMMDD') > >Apparently to_char adds a space to the charecter you are casting. > > I know :-) And lpad doesn't - that's why I suggested it :-) Dima > >On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Dmitry Tkach wrote: > > > >>Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:40:37 -0400 >>From: Dmitry Tkach >>To: Yasir Malik >>Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org >>Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help >> >>What about lpad? >> >>select lpad (7, 2, 0) || '-' || lpad (9, 2, '0') || '-2003'; >> ?column? >>------------ >> 07-09-2003 >>(1 row) >> >> >>I hope, it helps... >> >>Dima >> >>Yasir Malik wrote: >> >> >> >>>Thank you so much! But my problem is that when I do >>>to_char(mn, '00') || '-' || to_char(dy, '00') || '-' || to_char(yr, >>>'9999') >>> >>>where mn, dy, and yr are ints, is that the output has a space after the >>>the dash. For example, I get >>>07- 25- 1994 >>> >>>instead of what I want: >>>07-25-1994 >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Yasir >>> >>>On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Richard Rowell wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:21:33 -0500 >>>>From: Richard Rowell >>>>To: Yasir Malik >>>>Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help >>>> >>>>On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:07, Yasir Malik wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a string that is two >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>select to_char(9,'00'); >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >>>TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>