I think you could choose between two solutions (at least) :
1 - Insert date and time in place of timestamp
2 - use some functions like substring. Something like :
select substring('09/12/2003 12:51:31.268 PDT' from '../../.... ..:..:..')
Bruno
Shankar K wrote:
>oops forgot to mention, database version is 7.3.2
>
>--- Shankar K <shan0075@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Folks,
>>
>>Our databases stores most of the dates as timestamp
>>with timezone format, so the data looks like this...
>>
>>09/12/2003 12:51:31.268 PDT
>>09/12/2003 12:50:20 PDT
>>
>>some has centiseconds in them along with TZ. Now i'm
>>wondering is there a way to just extract date and
>>timestamp alone leaving the centisecods as well the
>>TZ
>>part.
>>
>>does pg_dump utility has any options to trunc this
>>while it exports data ?
>>
>>cheers,
>>shankar
>>
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