From: Jan Bodey <jan_bodey@hotmail.com>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Date comparison question
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:39:50 +0100
Message-ID: <Law11-F115BSoqY6FC300037315@hotmail.com> (raw)
The problem I have with having the values as type interval, is that I am
restricted by using Torque. I can't work out what Torque type (if any!)
maps to Interval! Your 'float-times-interval' operator may well get me
around that though, although I will not test until tomorrow, high time I
left the office!!
Cheers
Jan.
>
>"Jan Bodey" <jan_bodey@hotmail.com> writes:
> > SELECT * FROM utable
> > WHERE now() - utimestamp > interval '10 hours';
>
> > The problem I am having is that the interval is not fixed, and I would
>like
> > to be able to store it as a value in a database table. The unit of the
> > interval can, however, be fixed, and will almost certainly be fixed to
> > hours.
>
>Do you not want to store the values as type interval? That would seem
>like the most straightforward answer. If you really want to store them
>as plain numbers, there's a float-times-interval operator, so you could
>do something like
> ... > table.float8col * interval '1 hour';
>
> regards, tom lane
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