Re: casting for dates - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ryan Mahoney
Subject Re: casting for dates
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Msg-id 5.0.2.1.0.20010926171030.05fb8c30@paymentalliance.net
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In response to casting for dates  (Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>)
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Haven't tried yet, but perhaps casting nummonths to an interval datatype
would do the trick.

-r

At 04:30 PM 9/26/01 -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:


>I'm trying to use an integer from a table to add/subtract time in months.
>IOW:
>
>create table foo(nummonths int);
>
>select now() - nummonths months;
>
>So far nothing I've tried will work - short of a function.  Is there a
>way to do this?
>
>Vince.
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