RE: [SQL] Date type select

I think you misunderstood, try:
SELECT * FROM calls
WHERE date_trunc('month', date_in)='9/1/1999'
ORDER BY employee_nbr, date_in;

'date_trunc' is the function not my field name. Your method works well for
date but might not for daytime's because of the hour:minutes:seconds
specification, but that's another discussion.
DEJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paulo Roberto Kappke [SMTP:paulok(at)cyclades(dot)com(dot)br]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 12:48 PM
> To: Jackson, DeJuan
> Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Date type select
>
> OK DeJuan, but, probably your field's type is datetime and my type is
> date. If I use your statement, I receive the following message:
>
> ERROR: No such function 'date_in' with the specified attributes
>
> By the way, I'm using the statement:
>
> SELECT * FROM calls WHERE date_in>='$month-01-$year' AND
> date_in<='$month-31-$year' ORDER BY employee_nbr, date_in
>
> And it works fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Paulo K
>
> "Jackson, DeJuan" wrote:
> >
> > template1=> select date_trunc('month', now());
> > date_trunc
> > ----------------------------
> > Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 1999 CDT
> > (1 row)
> >
> > template1=> select date_trunc('month', now()) = '9/1/1999';
> > ?column?
> > --------
> > t
> > (1 row)
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > DEJ
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paulo Roberto Kappke [SMTP:paulok(at)cyclades(dot)com(dot)br]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 8:13 AM
> > > To: pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> > > Subject: [SQL] Date type select
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem to make a select statement with a date type
> field.
> > >
> > > I have a table with a field named date_in and this field is a date
> type.
> > > Well, I need to do a select where the month is 09 and the year is
> 1999.
> > > I tried:
> > >
> > > SELECT * FROM calls WHERE date_in LIKE '09%1999' ORDER BY date_in
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > SELECT * FROM calls WHERE date_in LIKE '09-__-1999' ORDER BY date_in
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > SELECT * FROM calls WHERE date_in LIKE '09%' AND date_in LIKE '%1999'
> > > ORDER BY date_in
> > >
> > > using psql command and I received the following message:
> > >
> > > ERROR: There is more than one possible operator '~~' for types 'date'
> > > and 'unknown'
> > > You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
> > >
> > >
> > > Could anybody help me ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Paulo Kappke
> > > Cyclades Brazil
> > >
> > > ************