From: Marcin Krawczyk <jankes.mk@gmail.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: age() function usage
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:53:12 +0100
Message-ID: <95f6bf9b0801251153s303f650ave9d4ff289ccee82@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Heh, that was easy, I must have been working for too long... :) Thanks
2008/1/25, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>:
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 1:06 PM, Marcin Krawczyk <jankes.mk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all. I am trying to determine the way to pass a variable/field value
> to
> > an age() function, query looks something like:
> >
> > SELECT age(timestamp data_zakonczenia_fakt) FROM kip_pracownicy_umowy
> WHERE
> > id_pracownika = 8
> >
> > data_zakonczenia_fakt being char column equal to say '1993-11-30'.
> > Such approach won't work, can anyone tell me the way to do it?
> >
> > SELECT age(timestamp '1993-11-30') works great.
> > Same story with age(timestamp '2008-01-01', timestamp '1993-11-30').
>
> You need an explicit cast:
>
> SELECT age(data_zakonczenia_fakt::timestamp) FROM kip_pracownicy_umowy
> WHERE id_pracownika = 8
>
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