On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:02:11PM -0800, Chris Pesko wrote: > Thanks. That seems a better way to go.
The PostgreSQL docs is your good friend :-) > At 03:47 PM 4/3/02 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > >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) The extra space is very common for all to_...() outputs/inputs and is needful thing of this. Don't ask me why.. it's Oracle idea. Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/ C, PostgreSQL, PHP, WWW, http://docs.linux.cz, http://mape.jcu.cz ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]