Re: Order By Date Question

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Order By Date Question
Date: 2009-09-08 14:32:00
Message-ID: 20090908143200.GC13727@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to BlackMage :
>
> I have a question about ordering by date. I have a table with two fields and
> some date
>
> Name(character varying) | Event_Date(timestamp with timezone)
> A | 2009-09-10 5:30:00
> B | 2009-09-10- 00:00:00
> C | 2009-09-11 17:30:00
> D | 2009-09-11 07:30:00
>
>
> I want to order by date and then by name, so I want the result A,B,C,D. The
> problem is when I do a 'SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date, DESC',
> it includes the actual time (HH:MM:SS) so the order comes out B,A,D,C.

Cast it to DATE, for instance:

... order by Event_Date::date desc

Andreas
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