Hi all,
For my application we are storing the date information by casting it into
BIGINT using the following
extract('epoch' from current_timestamp)::bigint

But how do I convert the BIGINT to the date format 'dd mm yyyy' a function
similar to to_date(text,text)
Is there any function to do this conversion.

Thanks in advance

With Best Regards,
Pradeep Kumar P.J

* Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) <Pradeepkumar.Pyatalo (AT) honeywell (DOT) com> [2004-10-21 07:47:21 -0700]:

This reply from Richard Huxton should do the trick:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql...7/msg00397.php

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Hi,
But from the result I need to display only the date and not the time. Should
I use extract() function to get the day, month and year seperately and then
form the date format, or is there any other way to extract only the date
part from the timestamp.

Regs,
Pradeep




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* Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) <Pradeepkumar.Pyatalo (AT) honeywell (DOT) com>
[2004-10-21 07:47:21 -0700]:

This reply from Richard Huxton should do the trick:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql...7/msg00397.php

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Hi,
But from the result I need to display only the date and not the time. Should
I use extract() function to get the day, month and year seperately and then
form the date format, or is there any other way to extract only the date
part from the timestamp.

Regs,
Pradeep




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To: Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10)
Cc: pgsql-novice (AT) postgresql (DOT) org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Function to convert bigint to date

* Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) <Pradeepkumar.Pyatalo (AT) honeywell (DOT) com>
[2004-10-21 07:47:21 -0700]:

This reply from Richard Huxton should do the trick:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql...7/msg00397.php

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Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication
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* Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) <Pradeepkumar.Pyatalo (AT) honeywell (DOT) com> [2004-10-25 02:23:19 -0700]:

You can cast a timestamp to a date. You really need to give these
things a try yourself. You'd be surprised what you can figure out
through trial and error.

xinu=> select now()::timestamp;
now
----------------------------
2004-10-25 23:45:38.939148
(1 row)

xinu=> select (now()::timestamp)::date;
now
------------
2004-10-25
(1 row)

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