Re: Question about copy from with timestamp format

How do I specify that when I use copy from? this is what I am trying right
now..
copy myTable (myTimeCol, col2) from myFile delimiter as '\t'

I am not sure how to specify the time format..

thanks, murali.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 07/29/2015 03:42 PM, Murali M wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to copy a file from local file system to postgres. I have
>> timestamp value specified as:
>> YYYYMMDDHH24 format -- for example:
>> 2015072913 -- is July 29, 2015 at 13:00
>>
>> how do I import this data into a timestamp field?
>>
>> thanks, murali.
>>
>> PS: I believe if I need the hour, I need to use timestamp (I do not want
>> to put the hour as a separate column). I believe date datatype does not
>> work, if I am right??
>>
>
> test=# create table ts_test(ts_fld timestamp);
> CREATE TABLE
>
> test=# insert into ts_test values (to_timestamp('2015072913',
> 'YYYYMMDDHH24'));
> INSERT 0 1
>
> test=# select * from ts_test ;
> ts_fld
> ---------------------
> 2015-07-29 13:00:00
> (1 row)
>
> For more information:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/functions-formatting.html
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>