Re: cross-database time extract?

2009/12/29 Israel Brewster <israel(at)frontierflying(dot)com>:
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> On Dec 24, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
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>> On Thursday 24 December 2009 1:44:58 pm Israel Brewster wrote:
>>>
>>> This is sort of a PostgreSQL question/sort of a general SQL question,
>>> so I apologize if this isn't the best place to ask. At any rate, I
>>> know in PostgreSQL you can issue a command like 'SELECT
>>> "time"(timestamp_column) from table_name' to get the time part of a
>>> timestamp. The problem is that this command for some reason requires
>>> quotes around the "time" function name, which breaks the command when
>>> used in SQLite (I don't know about MySQL yet, but I suspect the same
>>> would be true there). The program I am working on is designed to work
>>> with all three types of databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL) so
>>> it would be nice (save me some programing) if there was a single SQL
>>> statement to get the time portion of a timestamp that would work with
>>> all three. Is there such a beast? On a related note, why do we need
>>> the quotes around "time" for the function to work in PostgreSQL? the
>>> date function doesn't need them, so I know it's not just a general
>>> PostgreSQL formating difference. Thanks :)
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>> select cast(timestamp_column as time) from table_name
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you could try select timestamp_column::time from table_name