On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:25:39PM +1300, Rodger Donaldson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:22:57PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Rodger Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > values (to_date('06/Feb/2003:11:29:11 +13', 'DD/Mon/YYYY:HH24:MI:SS'),0,302,
> >
> > > Always inserts the correct date, but sets the time to midnight.
> >
> > Um, well, yeah ... it's to_DATE, meaning it produces a result of type
> > date. I think you wanted to_timestamp().
>
> Why yes. Yes I did. Too much time spent with Oracle, evidently.
> Next I'll be wondering why DECODE doesn't work...
Because DECODE is non-standard AFAIK. You can use CASE WHEN in PostgreSQL,
which IIRC, started being supported in Oracle 8.1.7.
-Roberto
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