Re: Date question.... - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Date question....
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Msg-id 20030522155103.GB1667@wolff.to
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In response to Date question....  ("Kovalcik, Mike A [ITS]" <mkoval01@sprintspectrum.com>)
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On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:38:54 -0500,
  "Kovalcik, Mike A [ITS]" <mkoval01@sprintspectrum.com> wrote:
> Well....
>
> I set my table up like...
>
> Bday date
>
> Where bday is my column name and date is the data type....
>
> I've tried a lot of things to remove it, but I've had no luck:
>
> UPDATE address SET Bday = '' WHERE addressid = '4'
>
> This is when it gives me the error, but I'm not sure what else to put
> there to make sure it is in date format to remove the date completely...

If you are doing things this way then you probably want to use:
UPDATE address SET Bday = NULL WHERE addressid = '4'

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