Thread: Querying date_time for date only ?
Hello List, I have a time stamp without time zone field, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, in my table. I want to also find something just for a particular day regardless of the time. (Pg)SQL way to do this ? TIA, Aarni -- -------------- This is a bugfree broadcast to you from **Kmail** on **Fedora Core** linux system --------------
On December 20, 2005 08:59 am, Aarni Ruuhimäki wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a time stamp without time zone field, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, in my > table. I want to also find something just for a particular day regardless > of the time. > > (Pg)SQL way to do this ? You can try, SELECT field::date FROM mytable; to select only the date part. Likewise, you can use field::time if you want to disregard the date. > TIA, > > Aarni HTH. Mike. -- Michael Burke michael@engtech.ca
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:19, Michael Burke wrote: > On December 20, 2005 08:59 am, Aarni Ruuhimäki wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I have a time stamp without time zone field, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, in my > > table. I want to also find something just for a particular day regardless > > of the time. > > > > (Pg)SQL way to do this ? > > You can try, > > SELECT field::date FROM mytable; > > to select only the date part. Likewise, you can use field::time if you > want to disregard the date. > That's neat, thanks. I was just getting there with WHERE ... AND EXTRACT('day' FROM res_date_time) = $day AND EXTRACT('month' FROM res_date_time) = $month AND ..., which may be useful elsewhere. > > TIA, > > > > Aarni > > HTH. > Mike. Merry Christmas to everyone, Aarni
Michael Burke <michael@engtech.ca> writes: > On December 20, 2005 08:59 am, Aarni Ruuhim�ki wrote: >> I have a time stamp without time zone field, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, in my >> table. I want to also find something just for a particular day regardless >> of the time. > You can try, > SELECT field::date FROM mytable; The date_trunc() function can also be useful for this sort of thing, particularly if you need to round off to something finer or coarser than days. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TRUNC regards, tom lane
Aarni Ruuhim�ki wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a time stamp without time zone field, YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, in > my table. I want to also find something just for a particular day > regardless of the time. > > (Pg)SQL way to do this ? Yes. You can use date_trunc(): test=> select date_trunc('day', '2004-01-04 04:02:03'::timestamp); date_trunc--------------------- 2004-01-04 00:00:00(1row) so it would be date_trunc('day', col) = '2004-01-05'. The problem with this is that you cannot use an index unless you create an expression index on the date_trunc() function call. Another option is to do something like: WHERE col >= '2004-01-04' AND col < '2004-01-05' If the date isn't a constant, you have to use date_trunc() on those, and add one day to the second comparison: WHERE col >= date_trunc('day', col2) AND col < date_trunc('day', col2) + '1 day'; -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania19073