using between with dates - Mailing list pgsql-general

I'm trying the following:

ship_date between '04/30/2010' AND '04/30/2010' + 14

But this returns:

ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "04/30/2010"

Can I use between with dates?

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Until later, Geoffrey

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