Re: [SQL] SELECT... BETWEEN 'P' and 'Z'

What I did was make the Z lowercase, since lowercase Z would be a bigger
number in the ASCII character set.

So now I'm doing "where x between 'P' and 'z';"

and I get everything that I want.

--Tim




-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: tim@dmcity.net <tim@dmcity.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@hub.org <pgsql-sql@hub.org>
Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] SELECT... BETWEEN 'P' and 'Z'
>
>Tried it here:
>
> test=> create table test5(x char(50));
> CREATE
> test=> insert into test5 values ('P');
> INSERT 18665 1
> test=> insert into test5 values ('Z');
> INSERT 18666 1
> test=> insert into test5 values ('S');
> INSERT 18667 1
> test=> select * from test5 where x between 'P' and 'Z';
> x
> --------------------------------------------------
> P
> Z
> S
> (3 rows)
>
>This is the 6.5 development tree, but should be the same on 6.4.*.
>
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