On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:36:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to convert a timestamp field to a date. ('1993-08-10
> 17:48:41.074' to '1993-08-10').
> I used date(TIMESTAMP_FIELD), but it seemed working only for date
> after year 2000 and return the previous date
> for any day before year 2000. Is that a bug or I just didn't
> understand the function?
tree=# select date('1993-08-10 17:48:41.074');
date
------------
10-08-1993
(1 row)
Maybe I don't understand what you mean: that was a date before 2000, and
it seems to give the right answer..
I tend to be pedantic and use
select cast('1993-08-10 17:48:41.074' as date)
Cheers,
Patrick
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