That's pretty clean and does the job. Thanks!
-----Original Message-----
From: John DeSoi [mailto:desoi@pgedit.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 10:36 AM
To: Walker, Jed S
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Make year 01/01/0001 but leave timestamp alone
On Aug 2, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Walker, Jed S wrote:
> I have a situation where we have a timestamp column but in special
> cases we want to set the date to '01/01/0001' and leave the timestamp
> alone. For example, '11/04/2005 10:30:05' would become
> '01/01/0001 10:30:05'. I've been going through the various date time
> functions but don't see a simple way to do this. Can someone help?
select ('0001-01-01 ' || now()::time::text)::timestamp;
timestamp
----------------------------
0001-01-01 12:31:52.815674
(1 row)
Just replace now() with whatever timestamp you are using.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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