On Mon, 7 May 2007, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> If term and process_time are stored as intervals then it will work. Also
> if they are stored as INTERVALS you can do CURRENT_DATE+process_time. In
> other words not have to declare the INTERVAL . Is date_issued stored as a
> date? If so it would not need to be cast.
Adrian,
Here are the pertinent declarations in the DDL:
date_issued DATE NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT invalid_date
CHECK (date_applied <= date_issued),
term SMALLINT DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL, -- in years
processing_time DEFAULT 180 NOT NULL SMALLINT, -- in days
Thanks,
Rich
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