Re: Comparing Dates

Nick,

You need to quote your date constant value:

'2004-06-08'

select '2004-06-08'::date > 2004-06-08;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)

select 2004-06-08;
?column?
----------
1990

I'm not exactly sure how the bare string is converted internally, but
it's clearly not a complete date like you're expecting.

-tfo

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On Nov 18, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Nick Peters wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I am trying to compare dates in a sql statement. this is what i have
> tried:
>
> SELECT * FROM transactions WHERE shippingdate>2004-06-08 AND
> transtype='Sale';
>
> but it returns all rows. When i switch the > with a < it returns
> nothing. I have even tried with todays date and have got the same
> results. So i guess my question is how do i compare two dates? BTW the
> column by the name of shippingdate is a date data type with the same
> format as the dates show above.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Nick
>
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