What happen if i just want to compare using minute only or hour only instead
of day? Is there a function to do that or is postgres only work in day?
T.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herouth Maoz [mailto:herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 6:05 AM
> To: tjk@tksoft.com; tpham@mail.priority.net
> Cc: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] datediff function
>
>
> At 02:26 +0300 on 17/08/1999, tjk@tksoft.com wrote:
>
>
> >
> > I think what you are looking for is age()
> > E.g.
> >
> > "update schedule set purged = 0 where age('now',dayin) >
> timespan('30
> >days'::reltime)"
> >
> > Presuming a table such as this:
> >
> > create table schedule (purged int, dayin datetime);
> >
> > This replaces "day" and "timein" with "dayin."
>
> Basically correct, but if there is an index on dayin, it
> won't be used. The
> best query to do would be
>
> WHERE dayin > 'now'::datetime - '30 days'::timespan;
>
> Herouth
>
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