On 04/06/2011 08:54 AM, Christine Penner wrote:
> I have to add a number of years to a date field. The years come from
> another field in the table.
>
> I know I can do this:
> select (ii_purchased + interval '3 year') as date from inventory_item;
>
> But I need to replace the 3 in 3 years with another field from the same
> table ii_expected_life but I can't seem to do that without getting
> syntax errors
Maybe something along lines:
select (ii_purchased + interval year_int::text||' year') as date from
inventory_item
I am guessing at the data type of the field.
>
> --
> Christine Penner
> Ingenious Software
> 250-352-9495
> chris@fp2.ca
>
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Adrian Klaver
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