Re: SOLVED - months, intervals and integers - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Gary Stainburn
Subject Re: SOLVED - months, intervals and integers
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Msg-id 200806041106.02724.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk
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In response to months, intervals and integers  (Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>)
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This turned out to be much simpler than I thought.

create view crm_script_details as  select *,    (CURRENT_DATE-(cs_age_max::text || 'months')::interval)::date as 
start_date,   (CURRENT_DATE-(cs_age_min::text || 'months')::interval)::date as end_date from crm_scripts;

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 09:44, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I've got the following table and view and I don't know exactly how to get
> what I want.
>
> The table contains integers for the number of months.
> I want the view to convert those month integers to intervals that it can
> add/subtract from a date.
>
> create table crm_scripts (
>   cs_id        int4 primary key,
>   cs_title    varchar(100),
>   cs_age_min    int4,
>   cs_age_max    int4,
>   cs_script    text);
>
> create view crm_script_details as
>   select *,
>     CURRENT_DATE-cs_age_max as start_date,
>     CURRENT_DATE-cs_age_min as end_date,
>   from crm_scripts;
>
> If cs_age_min is 6 I need start_date to be CURRENT_DATE-'6
> months'::interval
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Gary Stainburn
>
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