how to covert a column?

From: "Dimitrius Weddington" <dimitrius(dot)r(dot)weddington(at)marvell(dot)com>
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Subject: how to covert a column?
Date: 2007-07-02 21:53:47
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HI All,

I have a dataset (90GBs worth) that contains 3 columns of unix
timestamps in seconds. Ideally, I want to use copy to load the data into
the DB (the disk i/o of trying to process this volume of data vi perl
takes a couple of days). I was hoping to convert the unix timestamps
inside the DB to pg timestamp creating a view or create table as...
however no success so far. The "to_timestamp()" function works fine to
convert the data but for some reason I can't get it to work in creating
a view with the fields that are timestamps instead of INT.

Thoughts?

Thx!

-dimitrius

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