Re: select date between - PostgreSQL 9.5

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Patrick B <patrickbakerbr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: select date between - PostgreSQL 9.5
Date: 2016-09-14 01:17:24
Message-ID: CAKJS1f9_cdCKkvyNe+5=gzcg_nGQAgCUr-mS+OcJxcHAajXYYg@mail.gmail.com
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On 14 September 2016 at 12:20, Patrick B <patrickbakerbr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I want to select all rows that have been modified from now to 4 months ago.
>
> I've used these queries:
>
>> select
>> modified_date,
>> from
>> clients
>> WHERE
>> modified_date BETWEEN '2016-06-13' AND '2016-09-13'
>

Going by my clock here 2016-06-13 was just over 3 months ago, not 4.

>> select
>> modified_date,
>> from
>> clients
>> WHERE
>> modified_date >='2016-06-13' AND modified_date < '2016-09-13'
>
>
>
> But it didn't work... it returns 0 rows.... but there are rows to be shown:
>
>
>> select modified_date from clients ORDER BY modified_date ASC
>
>
>
>> modified_date
>> -------------------
>> 2015-07-11 17:23:40
>> 2016-09-13 20:00:51
>> 2016-09-13 20:00:51
>> 2016-09-13 20:00:51
>> 2016-09-13 20:00:51
>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?

None of those dates are between your specified date range. If you want
to include all of 2016-09-13 timestamps, then you'd better do <
'2016-09-14' since < '2016-09-13' will only cover timestamps on the
12th or before.

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David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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