On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Pesko wrote:

> Never mind.  Just figured it out.  Need to grab the substring from 2 for 8
> from the to_char result because it holds character number 1 reserv ed for +
> or - signs.  + is default or white space.  I think that is the reason.  Any
> other input?????

You might want to try the FM format on the to_char string...
sszabo=#  select to_date(to_char(20020101, 'FM99999999'),'yyyymmdd');
  to_date
------------
 2002-01-01
(1 row)


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