If you want an explicit date, then cast it like this:
SELECT '1/11/2003'::date AS "InvoiceDate";
Terry Fielder
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Stephan Szabo
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:04 PM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] How to quote date value?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>
> > 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".
>
> (I haven't seen the original message yet, so I'm replying to a reply)
> Date literals are generally written as:
> DATE '1/11/2003'
>
> PostgreSQL will try to guess what type you meant with quoted
> strings in
> expressions, but in the above there isn't enough context to
> do guess that
> you meant a date really (it should probably actually be
> thought of as a
> string in such cases).
>
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