Re: substring ..

Hi,there,

I am not sure what is your question mean. However,
if the type of datefoo is a timestamp then try:
select foo from table where date(datefoo) = '2000-12-14';
select foo from table where datefoo::date = '2000-12-14'::date;

select foo from table where substr(datefoo,1,10) = '2000-12-14';
might work also.

Jie LIANG

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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jeff MacDonald wrote:

> hi folks..
> 
> i want to do this to a datetime field..
> 
> select foo from table where substr(datefoo,1,11) = '2000-12-14';
> 
> it returns no results yet..
> 
> select substr(datefoo,1,11) does return some values that say
> 2000-12-14
> 
> any clues ?
> 
> Jeff MacDonald,
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