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"David Johnston" <polobo@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I have a database field that stores a timestamp to second+ precision;
> however, I want to search against it only to day precision.  If I leave the
> field in second precision and try to "WHERE field BETWEEN date0 AND date0" I
> get no results (OK, fine) but then I cast the field to date "WHERE
> field::date BETWEEN date0 AND date0" and get the expected results.

Try "WHERE field BETWEEN date0 AND date0+1".  When comparing a date to a
timestamp, the date is considered to represent midnight of its day, so
you're testing for a zero-width range there.

			regards, tom lane

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