Thread: ERROR: operator does not exist: date ~~ unknown

ERROR: operator does not exist: date ~~ unknown

From
Rohit Suman
Date:
Hi

I've a table bins in which I've a column named "Date In"  which stores values of "Date" type. I've postgresql 8.3.5

Now when I execute query " select * from bins where "Date In" like '%'; " I get the folowing error :


SQL error:

ERROR:  operator does not exist: date ~~ unknown
LINE 1: select * from bins where "Date In" like '%';
^
HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.

In statement:
select * from bins where "Date In" like '%';
Please help...I'm stuck for like 3-4 hours now on this X_X

Rohit



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Re: ERROR: operator does not exist: date ~~ unknown

From
Pavel Stehule
Date:
Hello

it means - there are not operator LIKE for datatype date. Why do you
do it? Try to look on date_part or extract functions.

Fast solution, bot not optimal, is cast date to text via function
to_char(date, 'mask')

regards
Pavel Stehule


2009/4/12 Rohit Suman <handsome_94@yahoo.com>:
> Hi
>
> I've a table bins in which I've a column named "Date In"  which stores
> values of "Date" type. I've postgresql 8.3.5
>
> Now when I execute query " select * from bins where "Date In" like '%'; " I
> get the folowing error :
>
>
> SQL error:
>
> ERROR:  operator does not exist: date ~~ unknown
> LINE 1: select * from bins where "Date In" like '%';
>                                            ^
> HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might
> need to add explicit type casts.
>
> In statement:
> select * from bins where "Date In" like '%';
>
> Please help...I'm stuck for like 3-4 hours now on this X_X
>
> Rohit
>
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