Re: Efficient date range search? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Efficient date range search?
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Msg-id 20021007162037.GF2521@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: Efficient date range search?  (Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>)
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:11:35PM -0400, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > Create an index on died field. And query like
> >
> > select * from pets where died < "last year july 4 7:01 PM;

> If the pet is still alive today died would be NULL and the where clause
> would not be true.

In that case check for NULL explicitly,

select * from pets where died > [date] or died is null;

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