Question

Is there any way convert text to time type?
Code in postgresql as below:

to_char(localtimestamp(0),'HH24:mi:SS')

this way I will get the value like 15:15:20,but this type is varchar(or text).
How can I do to get the value in time type?

Thanks!

Answer 1

SELECT  TO_TIMESTAMP('15:15:20', 'HH24:MI:SS')::TIME

Note that your very query (which returns local time) can be rewritten as

SELECT  LOCALTIME

which would return TIME