In response to Venkat Rao Tammineni : > Dear All, > > > > > > I have one table which has lot of data.In the same table I have one varchar > filed. I want to convert into Date data type? Is It possible to convert varchar > to date datatype with out loosing data.Please guide me.I am waiting for your > great response. Sure, if you have valid varchar-data. to_date('2009-03-11'::text, 'yyyy-mm-dd'); Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general