On 05/21/2015 10:01 AM, Daniel Torres wrote:
> I everybody, I'm new in the Postgresql world, and have an easy question:
> Is it possible to have date type data that only contain month and year?,
> how can I obtain that from a timestamp (without time zone) column?
>
> I've made this, but I think the result is a text, not a date
>
> select extract (Year from '2001-05-01 20:21:00'::TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME
> ZONE)||'-'|| extract(Month from '2001-05-01 20:21:00'::TIMESTAMP WITHOUT
> TIME ZONE);
date_part will get you what you want as will to_char. The above you
could cast if you needed. You really shouldn't use WITHOUT TIME ZONE.
JD
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