Re: date ranges

On 31/07/2007 17:26, jo wrote:

> I would like to know if there's a simple way to customize the range for
> dates,
> to avoid people insert dates before 1900 and after 2020, for example.

How about a check constraint on the date column? Something like -

create table the_table (
   the_date date,
   ....etc...
   check (the_date >= '1900-01-01' and the_date <= '2020-12-31')
);

Then you just need to handle in your application the error raised when
someone enters an incorrect date.

HTH,

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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