am Thu, dem 01.02.2007, um 16:13:28 +0100 mailte A. Kretschmer folgendes: > am Thu, dem 01.02.2007, um 15:58:08 +0100 mailte DANTE Alexandra folgendes: > > Hello List, > > > > Is it possible to import in a TIMESTAMP(6) field a timestamp in which > > the format of hour is HH.MM.SS (and not HH:MM:SS) ? > > In the documentation, at > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES, > > I didn't find this format. > > So can I think that it is not possible to import this kind of hour in > > PostgreSQL ? (I work with PostgreSQL 8.2.0). > > Any workaround to do that ? > > test=# select replace('2007-01-01 12.00.00', '.',':')::timestamp; > replace > --------------------- > 2007-01-01 12:00:00 > (1 row) If you want to COPY such data in a table, you can first COPY the data in a temp. table with TEXT-columns and then insert from this table the data into the destination table and convert the data using the way above. Or, convert the input-data with usual text-tools like sed or awk. HTH, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net