On Nov 23, 2004, at 5:33 AM, Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote:
I have a table with a timestamp column and I want to set this to a
value
of now() - a random number of days between 0 and 45 for each row...
I've
tried to do this a bunch of different ways and can't figure it out...
Here is my latest version:
update sometable set entered_dt = now() - interval
round(random()*45)||'
days';
Try
select now() - ((round(random()*45))::text || ' days')::interval;
Best,
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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