Re: [GENERAL] Now() function

2005-06-12 Thread Ben Trewern
BTW in Postgresql 8.0 you can do: ALTER TABLE foo ALTER foo_timestamp TYPE timestamp(0) with timezone; It'll do the truncation for you. Regards, Ben "Michael Glaesemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > >

Re: [GENERAL] Now() function

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 11, 2005, at 5:28 AM, David Siebert wrote: Quick question. can you set timestamptz to no fractional seconds? The docs are very useful for things like this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/datatype-datetime.html - Name timestamp [ (p) ] times

Re: [GENERAL] Now() function

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: A short term solution would be to update the column using something like update foo set foo_timestamp = date_trunc(foo_timestamp). Sorry. That isn't clear (or correct!) Complete example at the bottom of the email. UPDATE foo SET fo

Re: [GENERAL] Now() function

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 10, 2005, at 7:07 AM, David Siebert wrote: When I use now in an update it is giving me a very odd value in the database. This is what PGAdminIII shows 2005-06-09 13:52:46.259715 I am not expecting the decimal seconds. I am getting an out of range error in java when I read the column.

[GENERAL] Now() function

2005-06-09 Thread David Siebert
Windows XP SP2 Java SDK V1.4.2_08 JDBC 7.4.216.jdbc3 When I use now in an update it is giving me a very odd value in the database. This is what PGAdminIII shows 2005-06-09 13:52:46.259715 I am not expecting the decimal seconds. I am getting an out of range error in java when I read the column.