Thanks, guys. It should have been obvious to me, but wasn't.

I found the correct result was returned with either

AND event.DateTime <= 'May-1-2019 24:00'

or

AND event.DateTime::date <= 'May-1-2019'

The latter seems best.

Chuck Martin
Avondale Software


On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:41 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Chuck Martin <clmar...@theombudsman.com> writes:
> > I need help figuring out why a query is not returning the records I
> expect
> > it to. I'm searching on a DateTime column (timestamp without time zone -
> > not nullable). The query includes:
>
> >  AND event.Primaryresp_fkey = 5000011 AND event.DateTime <= 'May-1-2019'
> >  AND event.EventDone < 1
>
> > This does not return a record that has a DateTime value "May 1, 2019 9:52
> > AM".
>
> Well, no, since the implied value of the constant is 'May-1-2019 00:00'.
>
> If you only want 1-day precision of the comparison, maybe you should cast
> or truncate the timestamp down to date.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
>
>

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