for example something like the following : *Table 9-25. Date/Time Operators* OperatorExampleResult + date '2001-09-28' + integer '7'date '2001-10-05' + date '2001-09-28' + interval '1 hour'timestamp '2001-09-28 01:00:00' + date '2001-09-28' + time '03:00'timestamp '2001-09-28 03:00:00' + interval '1 day' + interval '1 hour'interval '1 day 01:00:00' + timestamp '2001-09-28 01:00' + interval '23 hours'timestamp '2001-09-29 00:00:00' + time '01:00' + interval '3 hours'time '04:00:00' - - interval '23 hours'interval '-23:00:00' - date '2001-10-01' - date '2001-09-28'integer '3' - date '2001-10-01' - integer '7'date '2001-09-24' - date '2001-09-28' - interval '1 hour'timestamp '2001-09-27 23:00:00' - time '05:00' - time '03:00'interval '02:00:00' - time '05:00' - interval '2 hours'time '03:00:00' - timestamp '2001-09-28 23:00' - interval '23 hours'timestamp '2001-09-28 00:00:00' - interval '1 day' - interval '1 hour'interval '1 day -01:00:00' - timestamp '2001-09-29 03:00' - timestamp '2001-09-27 12:00'interval '1 day 15:00:00' * 900 * interval '1 second'interval '00:15:00' * 21 * interval '1 day'interval '21 days' * double precision '3.5' * interval '1 hour'interval '03:30:00' / interval '1 hour' / double precision '1.5'interval '00:40:00'
is it possible? or is better to use an atached file and store it ? and what should be the data type to store a file that can be xls, doc, pdf for example. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <r...@iol.ie> wrote: > On 24/03/2010 21:48, Karina Guardado wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a special data type to use to store a lot of text and tables of > > data in a column or attribute? > > For large amounts of text, just use the TEXT data type: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-character.html > > Not sure what you mean by "tables of data". > > Ray. > > > -- > Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland > r...@iol.ie >
