From: Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: help with to_date and to_char
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:05:08 -0600
Message-ID: <41759DA4.6070803@onesystem.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41759C78.1040101@onesystem.com>
References: <416C74CC.6030309@dri.edu>
<9E1E7300-2215-11D9-A5E5-000D93AE0944@sitening.com>
<41759C78.1040101@onesystem.com>
Edmund Bacon wrote:
> When current_date is, say Aug 31 then
>
> select to_char( to_date('05' || '/' || to_char(current_date, 'DD/YYYY'),
> 'MM/DD/YYYY' ), 'MON' );
>
NUTS! that should have been
select ... to_date('02' || ...
{ cut, paste, ?edit? }
> returns 'MAR', which is probably not what you want.
>
> This works with 7.3.2, 7.4.5 and 8.0beta2.
>
--
Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
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