From: Tomasz Myrta <jasiek@klaster.net>
To: wireless <wireless200@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to get decimal to date form
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:24:34 +0200
Message-ID: <3F68C302.9020602@klaster.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90446ee7.0309170450.2f16d9ef@posting.google.com>
References: <90446ee7.0309170450.2f16d9ef@posting.google.com>
> In our postgre database is a decimal field with format YYMMDDhhmmss.9999999999
> where the 9s are random digits. I'm trying to strip off just the
> YYMMDD and put it in date form.
>
> So far I came up with:
> SUBSTR(TO_CHAR(rec_num,99999999999),1,6) AS Date which returns YMMDD.
>
> For example where the rec_num is 30608124143.47069519725 the above
> functions return 30608.
>
> I tried wrapping another TO_CHAR around it to try to format it to a
> date but this seems like it's a bit much for this purpose.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> -David
1. replace 0 with 9 to get leading zeroes - 030608 instead of 30608
2. to_date('030608','YYMMDD');
Regards,
Tomasz Myrta
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