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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Pablo Velasquez Rivas <pvelasquez@its.co.cr>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: About intervals
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:23:54 -0500
Message-ID: <20040528212354.GB1689@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40B784A9.70306@its.co.cr>
References: <40B784A9.70306@its.co.cr>

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:27:53 -0600,
  Pablo Velasquez Rivas <pvelasquez@its.co.cr> wrote:
> 
> but if I do a query like this, I get:
> / SELECT date2 - date1 as diff FROM table WHERE date2 - date1 >= 
> interval '15:00';/
> * diff
> ------
> (0 rows)
> *
> What can I do to do a query like the previous one , and get the right 
> answer??

It looks like 15:00 is being taking to mean 15 hours 0 minutes.
The more normal syntax for specifying 15 minutes is '15 minutes.
So you probably want:
SELECT date2 - date1 as diff FROM table WHERE date2 - date1 >= interval
'15 minutes';



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