Re: date format problem

HI bill
Try to cast the field to the datetime type

'ur_string_goes_here'::datetime

Hope this will help
Anand Raman

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:09 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] date format problem


> Hello List:
>
> Using 6.5.3 on SuSE 6.4.
>
> Built a table with a date field as type 'datetime'.
>
> I try to copy a text file to the table and get a 'bad date format'
> Dates in the text file may be null, but are in the form 1997-12-15.
> Have tried several of the date field types with the same result.
> The copy executes properly if I redefine the date field to varchar.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Bill Barnes
>
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