Michael Glaesemann <grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:49 , Tom Lane wrote: >> There is a built-in function to_timestamp() equivalent to this in 8.1, >> though it doesn't seem to have made it into the documentation :-( > It's in 9.8. Data Type Formatting Functions Yeah, I found it later. That's about as random a placement as one can imagine, however --- this is by no possible classification a formatting function, even if it was rather stupidly given the same name as something that is a formatting function. I'm thinking about moving the entry to where I expected to find it (under Date/Time Functions and Operators). regards, tom lane