How to get the date and time from timestamp in PostgreSQL select query?

Question

How to get the date and time only up to minutes, not seconds, from timestamp in PostgreSQL. I need date as well as time.

For example:

2000-12-16 12:2         


        

Answer 1

There are plenty of date-time functions available with postgresql:

See the list here

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-datetime.html

e.g.

SELECT EXTRACT(DAY FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');
Result: 16

For formatting you can use these:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-formatting.html

e.g.

select to_char(current_timestamp, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI') ...