Re: Stupid Monday Problem - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Patrik Kudo
Subject Re: Stupid Monday Problem
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Msg-id 38FB3284.52D36AC3@partitur.se
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In response to Stupid Monday Problem  ("Kenn Thompson" <KThompson@adestagroup.com>)
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Hi.

Dates should be quoted like '04/16/00'
What you're trying to do is to calculate
an integer of value 04/16/00 (which, if
the parser would let it through, would
even generate a division by zero error.)

Regards,
Patrik Kudo

Kenn Thompson wrote:
> 
> Ok- here's the problem ( too little coffee?)...
> 
> This query runs under Access. I of course change a bit of the SQL ( removed the '#' and have played with quotes), but
can'tseem to get it to run.
 
> 
> What the #%$^& am I doing wrong here?
> 
> Kenn
> 
> SELECT oid FROM file_header WHERE expire_date < 04/16/00
> ADODB.Recordset.1 error '80004005'
> 
> Error while executing the query; ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '<' for types 'date' and 'int4' You will have
toretype this query using an explicit cast
 


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