On Tuesday 08 September 2009 6:29:28 am BlackMage wrote: > I have a question about ordering by date. I have a table with two fields > and some date > > Name(character varying) | Event_Date(timestamp with timezone) > A | 2009-09-10 5:30:00 > B | 2009-09-10- 00:00:00 > C | 2009-09-11 17:30:00 > D | 2009-09-11 07:30:00 > > > I want to order by date and then by name, so I want the result A,B,C,D. The > problem is when I do a 'SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date, > DESC', it includes the actual time (HH:MM:SS) so the order comes out > B,A,D,C. > > So what I am asking is how do I order only by the date? YYYY-MM-DD? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Order-By-Date-Question-tp25346259p25346259.html Sent > from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Cast the timestamp to date: SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date::date DESC Though to guarantee the order you want you will have to do: SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY Event_Date::date, Name -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
