Re: date arithmetic - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Osvaldo Rosario Kussama
Subject Re: date arithmetic
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Msg-id 44DB8723.6020401@yahoo.com.br
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In response to date arithmetic  (chrisj <chrisj.wood@sympatico.ca>)
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chrisj escreveu:
> Hi ALL,
> 
> I want to do date arithmetic in SQL with a column that is integer.
> 
> example
> 
> create table bob (
>   col1   timestamp
> , col2   int4
> ;
> 
> where col2 represents a number of minutes.
> 
> 
> I want to do something like
> 
> select col1 + interval col2 minutes
>   from bob
> 
> This is doable with most other RDBMS (DB2, Oracle MS SQL) what am I
> missing??
> 
> I know one option is to create col2 as interval, but does not work for me.
> How can I cast int4 to "interval minutes"


SELECT col1 + col2*interval '1 miunute' FROM bob;

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