novice schrieb:
I resolved it by doing this - is there another more efficient method?
And yes, the text file I am working with doesn't have any TABs
5162 OK SM 06/12/04 06:12
substr("data", 30, 2)||'-'||substr("data", 27,
2)||'-20'||substr("data", 24, 2)||substr("data", 32, 6) as
inspection_date
You could try to_date() - see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-formatting.html
Regards
Tino
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