I've tried SO MANY variations of w/ and w/o the apostrophes, but
apparently not just the right one.
As you knew and I doubted, it NOW WORKS!
Whew!
You can bet that I'm keeping this snippet of code handy.
Thank you very much,
Ralph
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On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Ralph Smith wrote:
>
>> -- ==========================================
>> good_date := to_date(year||'-'||month||'-'||day , 'YYYY-MM-DD') ;
>>
>> RAISE INFO 'good_date = %', good_date ;
>>
>> UsecsD := EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM DATE 'good_date') ;
>
> You want something like:
> UsecsD := EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM good_date);
>
> Note the lack of single quotes. You want to use the variable's
> value, not
> a literal string with the value 'good_date'.