Change datatype from DATE to VARCHAR()

Question

CREATE OR REPLACE procedure create_table_dateWise27()

LANGUAGE plpgsql

as $$

declare 

d_date date;

begin

    select to_char(current_timestamp :: timestamp - interval '1 hour','yyyy-mm-
dd')into d_date;

EXECUTE format('
   CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS %I(
    nodeip text,
    interface text, 
    nodeip_interface text
   )','test_'|| d_date-1);

commit;

end;
$$; 

call create_table_dateWise27();

I want to perform the same operation where d_date is a VARCHAR().

Answer 1

If you want to put yesterday's date into the variable then do it during assignment. And if you want a varchar, then declare it as one - your current code does an implicit and useless conversion back a varchar back to a date anyway.

So something like:

CREATE OR REPLACE procedure create_table_dateWise27()
LANGUAGE plpgsql
as $$
declare 
  d_date varchar;
begin

  d_date := to_char(current_date - 1, 'yyyy_mm_dd'); --<< yesterday

  EXECUTE format('
    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS %I(
      nodeip text,
      interface text, 
      nodeip_interface text
    )','test_'|| d_date);

  commit;
end;
$$; 

Note that I changed the format mask for the to_char() call to use underscores (_) rather than - because a dash is invalid in an SQL identifier (table name) and thus would require the use of a quoted identifier which you should really avoid.