Re: using dates in pgsql - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: using dates in pgsql
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Msg-id 1062080015.25751.319.camel@haggis
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In response to Re: using dates in pgsql  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-novice
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 08:41, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 23:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> WHERE  activedate < (CURRENT_DATE - 188)
>
> > How does pg know that that's 188 days, and not months or years?
>
> <shrug> ... that's what the "date - integer" operator is defined to do.
> If you want some other behavior, create another operator.

Oh, ok.

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