Re: Order By Date Question

From: Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Order By Date Question
Date: 2009-09-08 14:32:47
Message-ID: 20090908143247.GH5407@samason.me.uk
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On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 06:29:28AM -0700, BlackMage wrote:
> I want to order by date and then by name, so I want the result A,B,C,D. The
> problem is when I do a 'SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date, DESC',
> it includes the actual time (HH:MM:SS) so the order comes out B,A,D,C.
>
> So what I am asking is how do I order only by the date? YYYY-MM-DD?

Casting to a date first is probably easiest, date_trunc would also work;
so one of:

ORDER BY Event_Date::DATE, Name;
or
ORDER BY date_trunc('day',Event_Date), Name;

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Sam http://samason.me.uk/

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