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Re: Constructors for dates, times, and timestamps

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:47:32AM -0500, Andrew T. Robinson wrote:
> Migrating from DB/2 6.1 to PostgreSQL 8.1.4,
> 
> The following work under DB/2, but I can find no analog in the 
> PostgreSQL documentation:
> 
>    time('00:00:00')  [there is to_date() and to_timestamp(), but no 
> to_time()?]

Well, you can always use to_timestamp and then cast to time, but this
also works:

# select "time"('00:00:00');
   time
----------
 00:00:00
(1 row)

I can't explain the need for the quotes, some kind of grammer issue.

>    timestamp(u.date, u.time) [where u.date is of type DATE and u.time 
> is of type TIME]

There is the function datetime_pl(date,time) whic does that, but most
people just use +'

# select '2007-05-02'::date + '22:33:44'::time;
      ?column?
---------------------
 2007-05-02 22:33:44
(1 row)

You can wrap it into a simple function if that makes it easier to
understand.

Oddly, the documentation indeed doesn't list all the functions, but the
operators will do what you want also.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-datetime.html

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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