Re: [SQL] SELECT... BETWEEN 'P' and 'Z'

From: "Tim Perdue, The Des Moines City(dot)net" <tim(at)dmcity(dot)net>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] SELECT... BETWEEN 'P' and 'Z'
Date: 1999-01-10 04:02:46
Message-ID: 005501be3c4e$14b897b0$61246ccf@timnt.desm.uswest.net
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What I did was make the Z lowercase, since lowercase Z would be a bigger
number in the ASCII character set.

So now I'm doing "where x between 'P' and 'z';"

and I get everything that I want.

--Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: tim(at)dmcity(dot)net <tim(at)dmcity(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org <pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org>
Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] SELECT... BETWEEN 'P' and 'Z'
>
>Tried it here:
>
> test=> create table test5(x char(50));
> CREATE
> test=> insert into test5 values ('P');
> INSERT 18665 1
> test=> insert into test5 values ('Z');
> INSERT 18666 1
> test=> insert into test5 values ('S');
> INSERT 18667 1
> test=> select * from test5 where x between 'P' and 'Z';
> x
> --------------------------------------------------
> P
> Z
> S
> (3 rows)
>
>This is the 6.5 development tree, but should be the same on 6.4.*.
>
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