From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: bhalligan@yahoo.com
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BirthDay SQL Issue
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:30:04 +0100
Message-ID: <43438F0C.7050406@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ji3uj1lqok26mll7bugc8rhpqk56s45m6j@4ax.com>
References: <ji3uj1lqok26mll7bugc8rhpqk56s45m6j@4ax.com>
brett wrote:
> I need to be able to select two dates on my webby so I have a range of
> dates
> Then I want to be able to get, using some nifty query, everyone's
> birthday that falls between those two dates. So if someone's birthday
> was 04/09/79 it would return that tuple
>
> I have been stuck on this for ages. Any my search for help has brought
> me here.
You need to look at it from a different angle - don't try comparing
dates, compare text instead.
=> SELECT to_char('2005-03-04'::date, 'MMDD');
to_char
---------
0304
(1 row)
That should do it.
Oh - you might want to read up on functional indexes in the manual too,
if this is a query you'll be running regularly.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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