Re: Sorting on fieldtype Time?

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Bjorn T Johansen <btj(at)havleik(dot)no>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sorting on fieldtype Time?
Date: 2003-07-09 13:48:16
Message-ID: 20030709134816.GB20044@wolff.to
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:24:14 +0200,
Bjorn T Johansen <btj(at)havleik(dot)no> wrote:
> I have a small problem.. I need to sort some rows on a Time field, but
> the time in these rows are recorded on evenings and nights, from 2200 to
> 0600 for instance. The problem is that the time after midnight should
> come after the time before midnight, i.e. 2315, 2345, 0015, 0100 should
> be sorted in this order and not 0015, 0100, 2315,2345.
> Is there a solution to this, other than using Timestamp instead of Time?

You could do something like like:

select timecol from timetab order by timecol <= 1200, timecol;

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