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To: "Thomas F.O'Connell" <tfo@sitening.com>
Cc: Nick Peters <nick.peters@candoltd.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Comparing Dates
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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
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"Thomas F.O'Connell" <tfo@sitening.com> writes:

> select 2004-06-08;
>   ?column?
> ----------
>       1990
> 
> I'm not exactly sure how the bare string is converted internally, but it's
> clearly not a complete date like you're expecting.

What string? That's just integer arithmetic.

-- 
greg