Convert text to timestamp in redshift

问题:

I have a text field "presence_changed_at" with text values i.e. '2014/12/17 08:05:28 +0000. I need to convert this into timestamp. In postgreSQL there is function TO_TIMESTAMP(), however in redshift this does not seem to be supported. I can get the date without time by

TO_DATE("presence_changed_at",'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') 

which produces

2014-12-12 

but i can't find any way to get TIMESTAMP format.

Thanks in advance for solving this

回答1:

try convert function:

convert(timestamp,presence_changed_at) 

回答2:

It's surprisingly horrible to get a datetime from a unixtime in redshift without a subselect. However, you can do this:

select timestamptz 'epoch' + YOURTIME * interval '1 second'

回答3:

Please use TO_Timestamp("presence_changed_at",'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') to get the desired output

回答4:

You can cast it to a timestamp. This supports quite a few reasonable formats without having to specify one.

select '2014/12/17 08:05:28 +0000'::timestamp;        timestamp ---------------------  2014-12-17 08:05:28  select '2014-12-02T05:00:00'::timestamp;       timestamp ---------------------  2014-12-02 05:00:00  select '2014-12-02T05:00:00PM'::timestamp;       timestamp ---------------------  2014-12-02 17:00:00 

回答5:

As of today, to_timestamp is supported by redshift. So, your SQL query should work. Check http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_TO_TIMESTAMP.html

回答6:

I recently worked on a database where a date & time variable was stored as text in a VARCHAR type, in multiple different formats (don't ask...), and had to convert it to a TIMESTAMP type. Since there is no TO_TIMESTAMP() function in Redshift, I used the trick suggested by Yiyu Jia on his [blog][1]. In a nutshell, the trick is to

• use TO_DATE() to get the date converted
• append the time portion of the input text to the above
• CAST the resulting string to a TIMESTAMP

For example here's the snippet to deal with a field named myDate with dates in either of the following formats

• "Feb 8 2013 10:06PM"
• "25/09/2007 16:21:00"

It is rather heavy, but works. A regex test is used to test if the date corresponds to the format handled on a given line. (that is only necessary when dealing with multiple possible formats)
The 'Feb 0 2013' case is a bit more complicated because I remove the time portion of the text, before submitting it to TO_DATE(), and because another regex is used to extract the time portion that is appended (as opposed the simpler SUBSTRING() used for the same purpose, in the other case).

... , CASE   -- Special date indicating "date not available": replaced by NULL   WHEN myDate = '31/12/9999 23:59:59' OR myDate = 'Dec 31 9999 11:59PM' THEN NULL    -- 'Feb  8 2013 10:06PM' case   WHEN myDate ~ '^[JFMASOND][a-z]{2}'  THEN       CAST(TO_DATE(REGEXP_REPLACE(myDate , '\\s[0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}[AP]M$', ''), 'Mon FMDD YYYY') || REGEXP_REPLACE(myDate , '[JFMASOND][a-z]{2}\\s+[0-9]{1,2}\\s+[0-9]{4}\\s+', ' ') AS TIMESTAMP)   -- '25/09/2007 16:21:00' case   WHEN myDate ~ '^[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4} '  THEN       CAST(TO_DATE(myDate , 'DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') || SUBSTRING(myDate FROM 11) AS TIMESTAMP)   ELSE NULL END AS MyNiceTimeStamp,  ...    [1]: http://yiyujia.blogspot.com/2014/04/redshift-convert-integer-to-timestamp.html 

回答7:

cast(column as timestamp) 

worked for me on redshift. See http://devdocs.io/postgresql~9.4/sql-expressions#SQL-SYNTAX-TYPE-CASTS

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