Re: Confused by to_char

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:00 +0000, Ragnar Hafstað wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 12:28 +0000, mike wrote:
> > I am am trying to get a day string from a date using to_char ie:
> >
> > SELECT date1,ti1 ,to1,ti2,to2,adj,ei,eo,to_char('2005-02-07','Day') FROM
> > vw_times_list1
> >
> > however I get
> >
> > function to_char("unknown", "unknown") is not unique
>
> test=# select to_char('2005-02-07'::date,'Day');
> to_char
> -----------
> Monday
> (1 row)
>
>

thanks for this - I found the solution to my immediate problem by
looking through a dump for to_char and found the function I was looking
for at the moment (dayname) but this will be useful for the general case

Mike
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