On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:58 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
> On Thu, June 11, 2009 17:37, Andy Colson wrote:
>
>> That's a little vague, so how about:
>>
>> select * from somethine where (extract(year from idate) = $1) or
>> (extract(year from idate) = $2 and extract(month from idate) = $3)
>> or (ex
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:47:26AM +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION date2text(DATE) RETURNS TEXT AS $$
> -- removes hyphens from a regular date
> SELECT
> SUBSTR(TEXT($1),1,4) ||
> SUBSTR(TEXT($1),6,2) ||
> SUBSTR(TEXT($1),9,2)
> $$ LANGUAGE sql STABLE;
Why
On Thu, June 11, 2009 17:37, Andy Colson wrote:
> That's a little vague, so how about:
>
> select * from somethine where (extract(year from idate) = $1) or
> (extract(year from idate) = $2 and extract(month from idate) = $3)
> or (extract(year from idate) = $4 and extract(month from idate) = $5
>
On Thursday 11. June 2009, James B. Byrne wrote:
>Given a datetime column, not null, is there a single syntax that
>permits searching for all dates in a given year, year+month, and
>year+month+day such that a single parameterised query can handle all
>three circumstances?
Apart from the other exce
James B. Byrne wrote:
Given a datetime column, not null, is there a single syntax that
permits searching for all dates in a given year, year+month, and
year+month+day such that a single parameterised query can handle all
three circumstances?
That's a little vague, so how about:
select * from
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "James B. Byrne" writes:
>> Given a datetime column, not null, is there a single syntax that
>> permits searching for all dates in a given year, year+month, and
>> year+month+day such that a single parameterised query can handle all
>> three circu
"James B. Byrne" writes:
> Given a datetime column, not null, is there a single syntax that
> permits searching for all dates in a given year, year+month, and
> year+month+day such that a single parameterised query can handle all
> three circumstances?
Try date_trunc() ... however, if you want th
On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:23 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
Given a datetime column, not null, is there a single syntax that
permits searching for all dates in a given year, year+month, and
year+month+day such that a single parameterised query can handle all
three circumstances?
Well, of course, in a
