From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Diego Gil" <diego(at)adminsa(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: datestyle question |
Date: | 2007-09-26 22:24:02 |
Message-ID: | dcc563d10709261524w33c4700bx9d28644376467b31@mail.gmail.com |
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On 9/26/07, Diego Gil <diego(at)adminsa(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a file to import to postgresql that have an unusual date format.
> For example, Jan 20 2007 is 20022007, in DDMMYYYY format, without any
> separator. I know that a 20072002 (YYYYMMDD) is ok, but I don't know how
> to handle the DDMMYYYY dates.
>
> I tried and tried but I can't import those dates to postgresql.
>
> Any hint, other than editing file ?
There are two approaches. One is to use something like sed or awk or
perl or php to read the file and rearrange those bits to a format that
makes sense to pgsql, or you can import that field into a text field,
and use something like substring() in postgresql to update a new field
that holds dates with the right numbers.
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