Birgit Jansen wrote:
  >I am trying to select from a table all rows that have a date befor
  >1/1/2001 or after some date
  >I am not sure how to do it.
  >I try
  >select date_part('year', start_date) from sometable;
  >and that works but how do I get it to only show me the years between
  >1990 and 2001 or some
  >othere set of dates.
  >
  >I would realy like to be able to just have a function to tell me if a
  >date in my datebase is
  >befor or after a date?

SELECT *
  FROM table
  WHERE start_date BETWEEN '1990-01-01' AND '2001-12-31';

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