Data type formatting functions - Amazon Redshift

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 blog post .

Data type formatting functions

Data type formatting functions provide an easy way to convert values from one data type to another. For each of these functions, the first argument is always the value to be formatted and the second argument contains the template for the new format. Amazon Redshift supports several data type formatting functions.