Re: Get date timestamp(3) without time zone column - PGSQL 9.5

2016-09-05 5:17 GMT+02:00 Patrick B <patrickbakerbr(at)gmail(dot)com>:

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>> You might want to share the version of PostgreSQL you are using.
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>> You might want to try date_trunc and AT TIMEZONE function/operators-
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>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-datetim
>> e.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TRUNC
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>> SELECT date_trunc('day', tasks_start at TIME ZONE 'EST')
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>> Note: I have not tried this statement
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>> Is this something you are going to use often? If that is the case then
>> consider to re-model your query. The moment you use an expression on a
>> column it would not use a normal BTree index.
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> Hmm... I see....
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> select date_trunc('day', TIMESTAMP '2016-08-10') FROM tasks
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> And I get:
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> 2016-08-10 00:00:00
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> I actually need just the date 2016-08-10, without 00:00:00...
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cast to date.

PostgreSQL timestamp shows time always.

Regards

Pavel

> Any idea?
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> Cheers
> Patrick
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