Re: datestyle question

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.