From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Question on interval
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:11:06 -0500
Message-ID: <1177099866.24411.30.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46290C34.9080507@kencast.com>
References: <46290C34.9080507@kencast.com>
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 13:53, Wei Weng wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> How do I write a query that converts an interger to the interval type?
>
> Like convert integer 10 to INTERVAL '10 seconds'?
>
> The integer is a column in a table though, so it is more like convert
> integer tbl.theInteger to INTERVAL 'tbl.theInteger seconds".
A lot of the times, it's easiest to multiply it:
select ..... where somedatefield > now() - interval '1 minute' * 5
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