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
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Message-ID: <Law11-F115BSoqY6FC300037315@hotmail.com>

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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