Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B471C1337BCC for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:36:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92598-05-6 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:36:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546271337BC1 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:36:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3SIK-00028F-LF for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:36:24 +0200 Received: from 80.150.102.194 ([80.150.102.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:36:24 +0200 Received: from spam_eater by 80.150.102.194 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:36:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org From: Thomas Kellerer Subject: Re: Create Datefield from 3 fields Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:36:16 +0200 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.150.102.194 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.024 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=0.77, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.164, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201010/16 X-Sequence-Number: 34667 Andreas Forø Tollefsen, 06.10.2010 13:11: > Hi. > > I am trying to create a datefield using YEAR, MONTH and DAY fields of type integer. > I tried this query, but it did not give good results: > select to_date(gwsyear::text || gwsmonth::text || gwsday::text, 'YYYY-MM-DD') FROM cshapes You are missing the dashes in the input string that you specify in the format mask to_date(gwsyear::text ||'-'|| gwsmonth::text ||'-'|| gwsday::text, 'YYYY-MM-DD') Thomas