From: | "Joel Burton" <jburton(at)scw(dot)org> |
---|---|
To: | Jeff MacDonald <jeff(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: substring .. |
Date: | 2000-12-19 20:08:14 |
Message-ID: | 200012192008.eBJK8E322196@olympus.scw.org |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-sql |
> i want to do this to a datetime field..
>
> select foo from table where substr(datefoo,1,11) = '2000-12-14';
>
> it returns no results yet..
>
> select substr(datefoo,1,11) does return some values that say
> 2000-12-14
Ummm... because '2000-12-14' is a ten-character, not eleven
character long string. Try substr(datefoo,1,10) and it works for me
(under 7.1devel).
However, this all seems sloppy. Why not extract the date, and
compare it as a date?
--
Joel Burton, Director of Information Systems -*- jburton(at)scw(dot)org
Support Center of Washington (www.scw.org)
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Tulio Oliveira | 2000-12-19 20:13:09 | Re: substring .. |
Previous Message | Stephan Szabo | 2000-12-19 20:07:33 | Re: substring .. |