Re: Formatting problems with negative intervals, TO_CHAR

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:08:37AM +0200, Stefan Weiss wrote:
> On Monday, 07 June 2004 09:52, Karel Zak wrote:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-formatting.html
> >
> > Warning: to_char(interval, text) is deprecated and should not be
^^^^^^^^
> > used in newly-written code. It will be removed in the next version.
>
> This is news for me. Are there any suggestions what we should replace
> TO_CHAR with? For example, we were using TO_CHAR to print timestamp
> values in ISO format without milliseconds ("YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS" style),
> regardless of the current datestyle setting.

Ah.. ONLY the INTERVAL version of TO_CHAR() is deprecated! All others
versions for numbers, timestamp or date are supported now and in future
versions too.

Karel

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