CREATE TABLE test(
counter SERIAL,
foobar CHAR(18)
DEFAULT to_char(CURRENT_DATE, 'DDMMYYYY') ||
trim(to_char(nextval('test_counter_seq'),'0000000000')),
tekst TEXT);I don't know exactly why the white space is in, but the trim function takes it out.
Best regards, Andy.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michiel Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: [ADMIN] How to format a date with a serial number for DEFAULT?
Hello list,
I am trying to create a table that hould countain a number formatted this way: YYYYMMDD##########
Where the hashes should be padded to '0'.
I have tried the following template_test=# CREATE TEMP TABLE test ( template_test(# counter SERIAL, template_test(# foobar CHAR(18) template_test(# DEFAULT CAST(date_part('year',current_date) AS TEXT) template_test(# || CAST(CAST(to_char(date_part('month',current_date),'00') AS INT) AS TEXT) template_test(# || CAST(CAST(to_char(date_part('day',current_date),'00') AS INT) AS TEXT) template_test(# || CAST(CAST(to_char(nextval('test_counter_seq'),'0000000000') AS INT) AS TEXT), template_test(# tekst TEXT);
This resulted in something almost good, but I lost the padding zeroes. I got "20053151"
Without the many CAST's like this: template_test=# CREATE TEMP TABLE test ( template_test(# counter SERIAL, template_test(# foobar CHAR(18) template_test(# DEFAULT CAST(date_part('year',current_date) AS TEXT) template_test(# || to_char(date_part('month',current_date),'00') template_test(# || to_char(date_part('day',current_date),'00') template_test(# || to_char(nextval('test_counter_seq'),'0000000000'), template_test(# tekst TEXT);
Resulted in something almost right as well, but now to_char adds a space before each to_char I would get a result like "2005 03 05 0000000001"
What options do I have to get this straight?
Mind that I created TEMP tables to test how I should set my default value.... TIA Michiel
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