Re: Fetching as Date from a String

hi,
Can u please give me an example for how to use
'to_char' or 'to_date' in the query. thanks.

bhuvana.
--- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The default data processing can be a bit confusing.
> It depend on the
> settings of "set datestyle", etc...
>
> For ultimate control, lookup to_date and to_char in
> the help. There you can
> specify the exactly format to use.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:22:38PM -0700,
> Thirumoorthy Bhuvneswari wrote:
> > hi,
> > I am using Postgresql-7.1 with RedHat Linux-7.1
> and
> > JDK-1.3.1. I am having a table named 'inv_table'
> with
> > a field 'inv_date' of datatype 'varchar'. But, the
> > field contains the records in the format
> > '05-10-02(dd-MM-yy)'. I created a view to take the
> > field like:
> > 'select inv_date::text::date from inv_table'. It
> > fetches the date field in the format
> > '2002-05-10(yyyy-MM-dd)'. ie, 'dd' part of the
> string
> > is taken as the 'MM' here and vice versa. But,
> this
> > fetching works fine for dates above '12-10-2002'.
> > Is there a way to specify the format of the string
> in
> > the 'Select' query itself. Please help me. thanks.
> >
> > bhuvana.
> >
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