Re: Datatype conversion help

Yes, Mr. Nachbaur helped me out. Thanks. I don't think I can do
to_char(<whatever date>, 'MM-DD-YYYY)
because the date fields are originally stored as separate integers in my
schema (they have to be that way). I still can't understand why the extra
space was added after the dash. It just made my life more miserable.
Yasir

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, David Olbersen
wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:02:55 -0700
> From: David Olbersen <DOlbersen(at)stbernard(dot)com>
> To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help
>
> Yasir,
>
> If this is a date you're playing with, simply use:
>
> to_char( <whatever date>, 'MM-DD-YYYY' )
>
> to get what you want.
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yasir Malik [mailto:ymalik(at)cs(dot)stevens-tech(dot)edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 1:29 PM
> > To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help
> >
> >
> > Thank you so much! But my problem is that when I do
> > to_char(mn, '00') || '-' || to_char(dy, '00') || '-' || to_char(yr,
> > '9999')
> >
> > where mn, dy, and yr are ints, is that the output has a space
> > after the
> > the dash. For example, I get
> > 07- 25- 1994
> >
> > instead of what I want:
> > 07-25-1994
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yasir
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Richard Rowell wrote:
> >
> > > Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:21:33 -0500
> > > From: Richard Rowell <richard(at)bowmansystems(dot)com>
> > > To: Yasir Malik <ymalik(at)cs(dot)stevens-tech(dot)edu>
> > > Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:07, Yasir Malik wrote:
> > > > I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a
> > string that is two
> > >
> > > select to_char(9,'00');
> > >
> >
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