Re: Problem with complex outer join expression - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Problem with complex outer join expression
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Msg-id 20060427125950.GD6159@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Problem with complex outer join expression  ("Chris Velevitch" <chris.velevitch@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Problem with complex outer join expression  ("Chris Velevitch" <chris.velevitch@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 16:55:22 +1000,
  Chris Velevitch <chris.velevitch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems like the problem has something to do with date arithmetic. I
> can't seem to add an integer expression to a date constant. It works
> if I add a integer constant to a date constant, but that's not what I
> want. I tried cast(expression as integer) + date '2006-04-09' but I
> get 'ERROR:  operator does not exist: integer + date'. What do I need
> to do to add a number to a date?

I believe that has been fixed in recent version of postgres. At some point
in the past there was only a date + int operator and not an int + date
operator.
Overloading makes it easy to forget that those are two different operators.

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