Re: How can I replace the year of the created_at column with the current year dynamically ?

[Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here is my try :

staging::=> select  to_char(created_at,'DD/MM') || '/' || to_char(now(),'YYYY') as when from users;

    when    

------------

 24/02/2014

 28/02/2014

 02/03/2014

 01/03/2014

 04/03/2014

 02/03/2014

 06/03/2014

 07/05/2014

 02/06/2014

 06/06/2014

 20/02/2014

 20/02/2014

 20/02/2014

 20/06/2014

 20/02/2014

(15 rows)

Can the same be done using any other clever trick ? 

What is the data at your disposal when trying to select the current year? If it is a timestamp, simply use date_part:
=# select date_part('year', now());
 date_part
-----------
      2014
(1 row)

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Michael