From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | aarni(at)kymi(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Querying date_time for date only ? |
Date: | 2005-12-22 16:01:17 |
Message-ID: | 200512221601.jBMG1H807869@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Aarni Ruuhimki wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have a time stamp without time zone field, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, in
> my table. I want to also find something just for a particular day
> regardless of the time.
>
> (Pg)SQL way to do this ?
Yes. You can use date_trunc():
test=> select date_trunc('day', '2004-01-04 04:02:03'::timestamp);
date_trunc
---------------------
2004-01-04 00:00:00
(1 row)
so it would be date_trunc('day', col) = '2004-01-05'. The problem with
this is that you cannot use an index unless you create an expression
index on the date_trunc() function call. Another option is to do
something like:
WHERE col >= '2004-01-04' AND col < '2004-01-05'
If the date isn't a constant, you have to use date_trunc() on those, and
add one day to the second comparison:
WHERE col >= date_trunc('day', col2) AND
col < date_trunc('day', col2) + '1 day';
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