Re: Strange behavior between timestamp and date comparison

On 7/23/22 03:04, Ludwig Isaac Lim wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Below is a sample case that exhibits a behavior that I can't explain:
>
> -- create the table
> create table ts (t timestamp without time zone);
>
> -- populate
> insert into ts(t) values ('2022-07-16 00:22:06.974000');
> insert into ts(t) values ('2022-07-16 00:22:06.974000');
> insert into ts(t) values ('2022-07-16 00:22:06.974000');
>
>
>
> -- This one return expected results
> select * from ts where t::date between '2022-07-16'::Date - make_interval(days => 30) and '2022-07-16'::Date;
>             t
> -------------------------
>  2022-07-16 00:22:06.974
>  2022-07-16 00:22:06.974
>  2022-07-16 00:22:06.974
> (3 rows)
>
>
> -- This one doesn't return anything (unexpected)
>  select * from ts where t between '2022-07-16'::Date - make_interval(days => 30) and '2022-07-16'::Date;
>  t
> ---
> (0 rows)

Because:

select '2022-07-16 00:22:06.974'::date;
date
------------
2022-07-16

select '2022-07-16 00:22:06.974'::timestamp;
timestamp
-------------------------
2022-07-16 00:22:06.974

and:

select '2022-07-16'::date::timestamp;
timestamp
---------------------
2022-07-16 00:00:00

When you normalize all the values to a date it works e.g. t::date.

When you don't then the date values in the between get compared as
timestamps and 2022-07-16 00:22:06.974 is greater then 2022-07-16 00:00:00

>
> -- version
> select version();
>                                                  version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 14.4 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-15), 64-bit
> (1 row)
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Ludwig Lim
>
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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