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?
----------
1990I'm not exactly sure how the bare string is converted internally, but it's clearly not a complete date like you're expecting.
-tfo
-- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005
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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