Dragan Matic <mlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > And isn't this: > SELECT * from table where timestamp_column < to_timestamp('11/19/2007 > 15:46:09 PM','MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') > just doing the same thing that implicit string to timestamp conversion > should have done in the first case? No. The entire reason for existence of to_timestamp() is to accommodate translation of formats that are too weird, ambiguous, or inconsistent to be reasonable for the main timestamp input code to accept. (Like this one.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster