Thanks. That seems a better way to go.
At 03:47 PM 4/3/02 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Pesko wrote:
>
> > Never mind. Just figured it out. Need to grab the substring from 2 for 8
> > from the to_char result because it holds character number 1 reserv ed for +
> > or - signs. + is default or white space. I think that is the reason. Any
> > other input?????
>
>You might want to try the FM format on the to_char string...
>sszabo=# select to_date(to_char(20020101, 'FM99999999'),'yyyymmdd');
> to_date
>------------
> 2002-01-01
>(1 row)