Amazon Redshift will no longer support the creation of new Python UDFs starting November 1, 2025.
If you would like to use Python UDFs, create the UDFs prior to that date.
Existing Python UDFs will continue to function as normal. For more information, see the
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TRUNC function
Truncates a TIMESTAMP
and returns a DATE
.
This function can also truncate a number. For more information, see TRUNC function.
Syntax
TRUNC(timestamp)
Arguments
- timestamp
-
A column of data type
TIMESTAMP
or an expression that implicitly evaluates to aTIMESTAMP
type.To return a timestamp value with
00:00:00
as the time, cast the function result to aTIMESTAMP
.
Return type
DATE
Examples
The following example returns the date portion from the result of the SYSDATE function (which returns a timestamp).
SELECT SYSDATE;
+----------------------------+ | timestamp | +----------------------------+ | 2011-07-21 10:32:38.248109 | +----------------------------+
SELECT TRUNC(SYSDATE);
+------------+ | trunc | +------------+ | 2011-07-21 | +------------+
The following example applies the TRUNC function to a TIMESTAMP
column. The return
type is a date.
SELECT TRUNC(starttime) FROM event ORDER BY eventid LIMIT 1;
+------------+ | trunc | +------------+ | 2008-01-25 | +------------+
The following example returns a timestamp value with 00:00:00
as the time by casting the TRUNC function result to a TIMESTAMP
.
SELECT CAST((TRUNC(SYSDATE)) AS TIMESTAMP);
+---------------------+ | trunc | +---------------------+ | 2011-07-21 00:00:00 | +---------------------+