Re: Please help me.. problem in to_char

what kind of column is t1.created? It appears that it
is a text column and the format looks like a date. Is
this correct or is it a date? I need more information
about your table structure. 

What about:

SELECT t2.id, t2.name, to_char(cast (t1.created as
date),'DD/MM/YYYY')

but the other '::' should work also.

extremedb=> SELECT to_char(cast ('12/4/2004' as
date),'DD/MM/YYYY'); to_char   
------------04/12/2004
(1 row)


extremedb=> SELECT
to_char('12/4/2004'::date,'DD/MM/YYYY'); to_char   
------------04/12/2004
(1 row)



I have a table with a timestamp in it called
createdate..


\d clientinfo                Table "public.clientinfo"    Column      |           Type           |  
Modifiers   
-----------------+--------------------------+-----acode            | text                            |
not nullcreatedate      | timestamp with time zone | default
now()


extremedb=> SELECT to_char(cast (clientinfo.createdate
as date),'DD/MM/YYYY') from clientinfo; to_char   
------------14/07/200414/07/200414/07/2004



Ted

--- azah azah <izza76@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, 
> I want convert from mysql to postresql, previously
> in mysql the code as below:
> 
> SELECT t2.id, t2.name, date_format(t1.created,\'%W
> %M %e, %Y - %r\') 
> 
> In postresql no date_format function, we need to use
> to_char function
> but it still work because still need to put ::date
> such as
> SELECT to_char('2005-03-27'::date,'DD/MM/YYYY');
> 
> How can i put ::date beside t1.created to get the
> output?
> Any idea??
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