Thanks Michael ,
It works.
With Regards
Ashish....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fuhr" <mike@fuhr.org>
To: "Ashish Karalkar" <ashish.karalkar@info-spectrum.com>
Cc: "Cesar Alvarez" <c.alvarezx66@gmail.com>; <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>;
"Phillip Smith" <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Formating Date Data Type?
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:35:35PM +0530, Ashish Karalkar wrote:
>> Tried with to_char but it does not take column name/actuall date
>> value as argument for date
>
> Please show exactly what you tried and what the result was. Does
> the following help?
>
> test=> create table test (d date);
> CREATE TABLE
> test=> insert into test values ('2007-04-15');
> INSERT 0 1
> test=> select to_char(d, 'DD-Mon-YYYY') from test;
> to_char
> -------------
> 15-Apr-2007
> (1 row)
>
> test=> select to_char('2007-4-15'::date, 'DD-Mon-YYYY');
> to_char
> -------------
> 15-Apr-2007
> (1 row)
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr