On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:42 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:48:49PM -0400, Crystle Numan wrote: > > Dear all: > > > > I am fairly knowledgeable about PostgreSQL but this behaviour is > > stumping me. Any help would be wonderful. If you think it is a bug, let > > me now and I'll file one. > > > > (select values in DB (date stamps) between Jan 1, 2000 and Jan 1, 2005, > > no results) > > <snip results> > > Looks to me like "value" is a string type, is this possible? > > ORDER BY value should make it more obvious. I think you are correct, that because the field is a string the comparison is not working as I expected. Unfortunately, the way we set up the database, I can't change the type to int as other values in this 'value' field contain letters. I'll have to find another way to get the proper comparison. Thanks to all who replied! Crystle -- Crystle Numan, B.Sc., Web Developer Guided Vision: the possibilities are endless 905.528.3095 http://guidedvision.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend