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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: what's wrong with my date comparison?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:04:55 -0400
Message-ID: <20071016180455.GQ3255@crankycanuck.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C03062CEA@egcrc-ex01.egcrc.org>
References: <FE44E0D7EAD2ED4BB2165071DB8E328C03062CEA@egcrc-ex01.egcrc.org>

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:57:03AM -0700, Tena Sakai wrote:
>  select name, value, datecreated
>    from mytable
>   where datecreated > 2007-10-02;
                        ^^^^^^^^^^

2007-10-02 is an arithmetic expression equivalent to 1995.

I think what you want is

	WHERE datecreated > '2007-10-02';

Note the quotes.

A

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