Re: Max function on Timestamp

At 11:30 +0300 on 02/09/1999, Esteban Chiner Sanz wrote:

> I have a table in my database with a timestamp field and I can't use a
> max function on it. You can do it with any other date types (date,
> timespan, etc.) but not with timestamp.
> Is there any problem on doing it? Why isn't it implemented in PostgreSQL
> 6.5.1? What would be the easiest way of doing it?

You can convert to datetime and back. I have 6.4, in which conversion from
datetime to timestamp is broken. I don't know whether or not it is broken
in 6.5.1 as well, but if it is, you can easily define:

CREATE FUNCTION dt_to_ts( datetime ) returns timestamp
AS 'SELECT timestamp_in( datetime_out( $1 ) ) WHERE $1 IS NOT NULL'
LANGUAGE 'sql';

Now, get your max with:

SELECT dt_to_ts( max( timestamp_field::datetime ) )
FROM the_table;

Herouth

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