Re: timestamp format bug

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Jon Roberts" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: timestamp format bug
Date: 2008-01-31 18:45:26
Message-ID: 47A1C2E5.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov
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>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:34 PM, in message
<1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A92762715526(at)nrtexcus702(dot)int(dot)asurion(dot)com>, "Roberts,
Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com> wrote:

> If not to_char, what is the preferred method to convert a timestamp to a
> string?

Your original post showed to_char apparently doing what you wanted, no?

> select to_char(date, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss.ms') as char,
> date
> from (select timestamp'2008-01-30 15:06:21.560' as date) sub
>
>
> "2008-01-30 15:06:21.560";"2008-01-30 15:06:21.56"

The to_char function returned the timestamp as a character string with
three decimal positions.

-Kevin

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