Re: BirthDay SQL Issue

brett wrote:
> I need to be able to select two dates on my webby so I have a range of
> dates

> Then I want to be able to get, using some nifty query, everyone's
> birthday that falls between those two dates. So if someone's birthday
> was 04/09/79 it would return that tuple
>
> I have been stuck on this for ages. Any my search for help has brought
> me here.

You need to look at it from a different angle - don't try comparing
dates, compare text instead.

=> SELECT to_char('2005-03-04'::date, 'MMDD');
to_char
---------
0304
(1 row)

That should do it.

Oh - you might want to read up on functional indexes in the manual too,
if this is a query you'll be running regularly.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd