On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 06:29:28AM -0700, BlackMage wrote:
> 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.
> 
> So what I am asking is how do I order only by the date? YYYY-MM-DD?

Casting to a date first is probably easiest, date_trunc would also work;
so one of:

  ORDER BY Event_Date::DATE, Name;
or
  ORDER BY date_trunc('day',Event_Date), Name;

-- 
  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/

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