Re: substring ..

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Jeff MacDonald <jeff(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: substring ..
Date: 2000-12-19 20:07:33
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0012191205580.77350-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jeff MacDonald wrote:

> hi folks..
>
> i want to do this to a datetime field..
>
> select foo from table where substr(datefoo,1,11) = '2000-12-14';
>
> it returns no results yet..
>
> select substr(datefoo,1,11) does return some values that say
> 2000-12-14
>
> any clues ?

My guess is that it's a trailing space thing. '2000-12-14' is
only 10 characters not 11... What you're actually getting is
probably '2000-12-14 '

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