Re: Formatting date question

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Linn Kubler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using a database program to query my postgres backend and I'm
> trying to convert a timestamp to a date for display purposes. In psql I
> can use to_char() and it works fine but that command doesn't work in my
> database applications sql select statement, just gives a syntax error.
> Of course if I try using the similar command from the database
> application the query fails. I'm using Visual Fox Pro via odbc, they
> call it sql passthru.
>
> Any suggestions?

I know nothing of the odbc interface but seeing as this turned up as I was
posting another message...

Perhaps you need to escape quotation marks when supplying the query string in
Foxpro and/or odbc.

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