Re: casting for dates - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew McMillan
Subject Re: casting for dates
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Msg-id 1001537839.2178.2.camel@kant.mcmillan.net.nz
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In response to casting for dates  (Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>)
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On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 08:30, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to use an integer from a table to add/subtract time in months.
> IOW:
> 
> create table foo(nummonths int);
> 
> select now() - nummonths months;

newsroom=# select now() - interval( text(3) || ' months');       ?column?        
------------------------2001-06-27 08:56:27+12
(1 row)


Crude, but hey: it works :-)

Cheers,                SAndrew.
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