Fixing faulty dates - select on day part of a date field

From: Gary Stainburn <gary(dot)stainburn(at)ringways(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "pgsql-sql" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Fixing faulty dates - select on day part of a date field
Date: 2001-11-29 11:31:24
Message-ID: E169PMt-0005zg-00@stan.ringways.co.uk
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Hi all,

I've got a problem with dates on one of my tables. I've been inserting dates
in the format 'dd/mm/ccyy' which for the days 13-31 for each month worked
fine.

The problem I have is that for the days 01-12 for each month, the date was
interpretted as 'mm/dd/ccyy'. Now I know about it I need to fix it.

Two questions.

1) how can I select on part of a date? I need to select all records where
the day is not > 12.
2) can I do this in a single update, i.e. can I do something around

update calls set xdate = ???? where ??????;

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