On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:41:11PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The date-of-birth field in our table holding patients is of > > type "timestamp with time zone". One of our patient search > > queries uses the date-of-birth field to find matches. Since > > users enter day, month, and year but not hour, minute, and > > second of the DOB we run the query with > > That seems like an odd choice. Is there some reason they didn't use a type > of date? Maybe you could get them to change it? What time of day were you born ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar What is the technical reason that makes you wonder ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346