comparing dates with timestamps ?

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:57:30 +0200, raptor <raptor@tvskat.net> wrote:

how to compare dates with timestamp..if i dont care about
the hour:minute part of the timestamp... i.e. i want
to be able to do exact match :

timestamp in (select date from table where .....)

timestamp::DATE in ((select date from table where...))

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On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:57 +0200, raptor wrote:

how to compare dates with timestamp..if i dont care about
the hour:minute part of the timestamp... i.e. i want
to be able to do exact match :

timestamp in (select date from table where .....)

Try something like this: (created is a timestamp data type)

SELECT created::date FROM orders.payment WHERE id = 100;
created
------------
2004-11-28

or

SELECT id, email FROM orders.payment WHERE created::date = now()::date;

-Robby

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