From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: changing column datatype from char(20) to timestamp |
Date: | 2008-04-29 17:46:45 |
Message-ID: | 20080429104232.H54920@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Back then, I was effectively mangling timestamps in a table, by
> casting to char(20) to work around problem with a webapp. The app
> finally got fixed, and I'm looking into how to try to get all this
> ugly data from char(20) into a sane 'timestamp without time zone'
> format. Right now, its all:
>
> date_created | character(20) | not null
>
> I want to change it to:
> date_created | timestamp without time zone | not null
>
> Unfortunately, I can't just do:
> ALTER TABLE data ALTER COLUMN date_created TYPE timestamp ;
In recent versions I think something like
ALTER TABLE data ALTER COLUMN date_created TYPE timestamp USING
CAST(date_created as timestamp);
should work. If you have data for which the cast will fail, you can use
some other expression after the USING.
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