Re: Is there a builtin function for formatting time values?

On Thursday 28 January 2010 2:23:26 pm Frank Church wrote:
> I have to this to extract formated times from timestamps, but I
> suspect there is something much better, even if it uses a stored
> procedure. The lpad command to is also funny because I have to
> concatenate it with an empty quote to convert the output to a string.
>
> select lpad(extract(hour from calldate) || '', 2, '0') || ':' ||
> lpad(extract(minute from calldate) || '', 2, '0') || ':' ||
> lpad(extract(second from calldate) || '', 2, '0') from asterisk_cdr
>
> There must be a formattted into to string function or a formatted time
> function somewhere.
>
> Are there any links to PostgreSQL stored procedure libraries?
>
>
> /voipfc

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-formatting.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-datetime.html

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