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 C033EB43A08 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:49:02 +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 13185-07 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:48:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from black-label.cs.stevens-tech.edu (black-label.cs.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.89.85]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512DCB43183 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 19:48:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: by black-label.cs.stevens-tech.edu (Postfix, from userid 4405) id C179590447; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:49:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by black-label.cs.stevens-tech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1290900FA; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:49:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:49:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Yasir Malik To: Dmitry Tkach Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Datatype conversion help In-Reply-To: <3F0C99E5.4090205@openratings.com> Message-ID: References: <1057695693.24179.0.camel@localhost> <3F0C99E5.4090205@openratings.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200307/113 X-Sequence-Number: 14227 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. Yasir 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 > > > > > >