Re: in-date news items - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrew G. Hammond
Subject Re: in-date news items
Date
Msg-id 20020312172419.GA19889@xyzzy.dhs.org
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In response to in-date news items  (Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>)
List pgsql-sql
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:17:05PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use a select to get the latest item of news, provided that it's
> within the last X days.  What do I need to add to the where clause for the
> select statement below:
>
> select ndate, nauthor, nheading
>     from news
>     order by ndate desc
>     limit 1
> *** where ndate within the last 3 months ******

you'll laugh when you see this... :)

WHERE ndate > 'now'::datetime - '3 months'::interval;

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