[GENERAL] recasting to timestamp from varchar

2013-01-04 Thread Kirk Wythers
I am trying to re-cast a column as a timestamp ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp; ERROR: column time2 cannot be cast to type timestamp without time zone The column time2 is currently a varchar. I actually do not want to mess with time zones, but it seems that postgres

Re: [GENERAL] recasting to timestamp from varchar

2013-01-04 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2013/1/4 Kirk Wythers kirk.wyth...@gmail.com I am trying to re-cast a column as a timestamp ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp; ERROR: column time2 cannot be cast to type timestamp without time zone The column time2 is currently a varchar. I actually do not want

[GENERAL] recasting to timestamp from varchar

2013-01-04 Thread Kirk Wythers
I am trying to re-cast a column as a timestamp ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp; ERROR: column time2 cannot be cast to type timestamp without time zone The column time2 is currently a varchar. I actually do not want to mess with time zones, but it seems that postgres

[GENERAL] recasting to timestamp from varchar

2013-01-04 Thread Kirk Wythers
I am trying to re-cast a column as a timestamp ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp; ERROR: column time2 cannot be cast to type timestamp without time zone The column time2 is currently a varchar. I actually do not want to mess with time zones, but it seems that postgres

Re: [GENERAL] recasting to timestamp from varchar

2013-01-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Kirk Wythers wythe...@umn.edu wrote: I am trying to re-cast a column as a timestamp ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp; ERROR: column time2 cannot be cast to type timestamp without time zone The column time2 is currently a varchar. I

Re: [GENERAL] recasting to timestamp from varchar

2013-01-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/4/2013 9:28 AM, Kirk Wythers wrote: ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp; ERROR: column time2 cannot be cast to type timestamp without time zone you need to give it some hints as to how to do that casting. ALTER TABLE sixty_min ALTER COLUMN time2 TYPE timestamp USING