Joining dates/times (was Re: Splitting Timestamps)

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Chris Hoover wrote:
>> I have several columns in my database that are timestamps.  My developers
>> are asking me how to split the timestamp so that they can look at either the
>> date or at the time portion.
>>
>> I know I can do a select to_date(now(),'yyyy-mm-dd') and it will return the
>> date.  However, how do I get the time?  Also, is this the proper way to get
>> the date portion of a timestamp?
>
> select now()::timetz;
> select now()::time;
> select now()::date;

What's the inverse?  Say I have a DATE and a TIME, and want to
create a TIMESTAMP with them?

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