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Re: Truncating 'now' to seconds

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Nathan Schile <nate@shiftyeyes.com> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to run the following query:
> 
> INSERT INTO public."Bug Status" ("Tracking Number", "Assigned Analyst", 
> status, "Changed By", "Updated Date") VALUES
> (111111111, 'NS', 'Reported', 'NS', DATE_TRUNC('second', 'now'));
> 
> I recieve the following error:
> 
> ERROR:  unterminated string
> CONTEXT:  compile of PL/pgSQL function "update_status" near line 3
> 
> I am basically wanting to truncate the timestamp to seconds, so that I 
> don't get milliseconds.  Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?  Thanks

As with the date/time one I answered yesterday:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-datetime.html is
your friend.

select now();
              now              
-------------------------------
 2004-05-21 16:39:43.843642-04
(1 row)

select date_trunc('second', now());
       date_trunc       
------------------------
 2004-05-21 16:39:48-04
(1 row)

select date_trunc('second', current_timestamp);
       date_trunc       
------------------------
 2004-05-21 16:39:55-04
(1 row)

select current_timestamp (0);
      timestamptz       
------------------------
 2004-05-21 16:40:01-04
(1 row)

select localtimestamp (0);
      timestamp      
---------------------
 2004-05-21 16:40:04
(1 row)


Btw: You could just define the timestamp column in your table to be
"timestamp (0)" and lose the fractional seconds that way, too.

Jim

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