From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Messy Casts, Is there a better way?
Date: 15 Oct 2002 05:16:19 -0500
Message-ID: <1034676979.436.1.camel@lerlaptop.lerctr.org> (raw)
I have a table with the following, in part:
contract_start date
contract_term int (term in MONTHS)
I want to calculate the contract end date. I came up with:
CREATE FUNCTION "get_contract_end" (integer) RETURNS date AS 'SELECT
cast(contract_start + cast(cast(contract_term as text) || '' month'' as
interval) as date)
FROM circuit
WHERE internal_id = $1;' LANGUAGE 'sql';
Is there a better way?
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