Re: to_date

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Jim Fu <Jim(dot)Fu(at)LogixCom(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: to_date
Date: 2006-02-13 21:26:38
Message-ID: 1139865997.22740.164.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:22, Jim Fu wrote:
> Thank you Michael for the info!
>
> I have the original date info as mmddyy, when I use copy tabname from filename, it fails due to mismatch between raw date info and date data type in the database. It seems like I had to convert the raw date info to be like 'yyyy-mm-dd' to match PostgreSQL date default format in order to use copy command.

Take a look here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-DATESTYLE
and here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/datatype-datetime.html

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