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From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Cc: nobody <nobody@nowhere.near.here>
Subject: Re: How to quote date value?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:01:32 +0100
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nobody wrote:
> I have found it in documentation, it is single quote. But it does not
> explain why
> 
> SELECT '1/11/2003' AS "InvoiceDate";
> 
> returns "unknown" data type instead of "date".

Why not a string ? or a fancy custom type ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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