From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: john whale <john.whale@ukdirect.org>
Cc: 'pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: DATE
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:54:35 +0000
Message-ID: <200101241054.f0OAsdq20101@linda.lfix.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <john.whale@ukdirect.org> <07EB26C562C6D411ACE900C04FA33F8F5438@UKMAIL>
john whale wrote:
>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.
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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