Re: Year Only Date Column

From: "Jeff Flowers" <duckfoo(at)fastmail(dot)fm>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Year Only Date Column
Date: 2004-11-23 15:21:04
Message-ID: 1101223264.2680.209293607@webmail.messagingengine.com
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:28:08 +0900, "Michael Glaesemann"
<grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> said:
>
> On Nov 23, 2004, at 10:16 PM, Jeff Flowers wrote:
>
> > I want to create a date column that contains only the year, such as
> > YYYY. Can this done in PostgreSQL? I didn't see this listed in the
> > handbook and right now, the only way I can see to do would be to create
> > a numeric data field with zero scale and a precision of four.
>
> You could do that, or create a domain that would restrict the date to
> only be, say, CCYY-01-01, which would represent the year.

Since I will be using this column only for the sake of completeness, I
think that I will either use the numeric column (or perhaps a CHAR(4)
column).

Thanks,

--
Jeff Flowers

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