>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:34 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roberts,
Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
 
> If not to_char, what is the preferred method to convert a timestamp to a
> string?
 
Your original post showed to_char apparently doing what you wanted, no?
 
> select to_char(date, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss.ms') as char, 
>        date 
>   from (select timestamp'2008-01-30 15:06:21.560' as date) sub
> 
> 
> "2008-01-30 15:06:21.560";"2008-01-30 15:06:21.56"
 
The to_char function returned the timestamp as a character string with
three decimal positions.
 
-Kevin
 



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