Re: Sorting on fieldtype Time? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bjørn T Johansen
Subject Re: Sorting on fieldtype Time?
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Msg-id 1057759297.16775.24.camel@pennywise.havleik.no
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In response to Re: Sorting on fieldtype Time?  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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You are absolutely correct, I could... :)

Thanks....


BTJ

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 15:48, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:24:14 +0200,
>   Bjorn T Johansen <btj@havleik.no> wrote:
> > I have a small problem.. I need to sort some rows on a Time field, but
> > the time in these rows are recorded on evenings and nights, from 2200 to
> > 0600 for instance. The problem is that the time after midnight should
> > come after the time before midnight, i.e. 2315, 2345, 0015, 0100 should
> > be sorted in this order and not 0015, 0100, 2315,2345.
> > Is there a solution to this, other than using Timestamp instead of Time?
>
> You could do something like like:
>
> select timecol from timetab order by timecol <= 1200, timecol;



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