Re: Fetching as Date from a String

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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