Thread: DATE

PLEASE ADVISE HOW I SHOULD ALTER THE COMMAND:

<$NOW;DDMMMM;YYYY>

TO GIVE ME A DATE THAT IS X DAYS FORWARD

ie:  I WISH TO REPRESENT A DATE IN FORM WHICH IS A 7 DAYS FORWARD
OF THE DATE NOW.

REGARDS

JOHN WHALE

Select now() + 7;

-----Original Message-----
From:    john whale [SMTP:john.whale@ukdirect.org]
Sent:    Monday, January 22, 2001 10:30 AM
To:    'pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org'
Subject:    DATE

PLEASE ADVISE HOW I SHOULD ALTER THE COMMAND:

<$NOW;DDMMMM;YYYY>

TO GIVE ME A DATE THAT IS X DAYS FORWARD

ie:  I WISH TO REPRESENT A DATE IN FORM WHICH IS A 7 DAYS FORWARD
OF THE DATE NOW.

REGARDS

JOHN WHALE

john whale wrote: >PLEASE ADVISE HOW I SHOULD ALTER THE COMMAND: > ><$NOW;DDMMMM;YYYY> > >TO GIVE ME A DATE THAT IS X
DAYSFORWARD > >ie:  I WISH TO REPRESENT A DATE IN FORM WHICH IS A 7 DAYS FORWARD >OF THE DATE NOW.
 

I don't recognise the format you are using, but in standard SQL:

template1=# select CURRENT_DATE as now,
template1-#        CAST (CURRENT_DATE + INTERVAL '7 days' AS DATE) as week;   now     |    week    
------------+------------2001-01-24 | 2001-01-31
(1 row)

Use to_char() for date formatting.

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> PLEASE ADVISE HOW I SHOULD ALTER THE COMMAND:
> 
> <$NOW;DDMMMM;YYYY>
> 
> TO GIVE ME A DATE THAT IS X DAYS FORWARD
> 
> ie:  I WISH TO REPRESENT A DATE IN FORM WHICH IS A 7 DAYS FORWARD
> OF THE DATE NOW.
( now() + '7 days'::interval )::date  (or ::datetime, whichever you 
need)

Emils