A. Kretschmer wrote:
am  18.04.2006, um  9:20:50 +0200 mailte P.MO folgendes:
Hello

I have the same problem against various PostgreSQL 8.1.3, 8.0.2 and 7.4.7:

I have a table containing periodical invoices. it contain's the last time the invoce was printed and a period in month to be waited before next time.
My querry works with date_parts on days but never with months:

create temp table tstdates (
lasttimedone date,
period integer
);

insert into tstdates values ('2006-01-01',2);
insert into tstdates values ('2006-02-01',2);
insert into tstdates values ('2006-03-01',2);
insert into tstdates values ('2006-04-01',2);

-- doesn' t works :
select * from tstdates where date_part('month',now()-lasttimedone) >= period;

now()-lasttimedone returns the number of days, not the months.

You can use this:

test=# select * from tstdates where date_part('month',age(lasttimedone)) >= 
period;
 lasttimedone | period
--------------+--------
 2006-01-01   |      2
 2006-02-01   |      2
(2 rows)

Or you could use intervals, something like:

select *
from tstdates
where lasttimedone <= now() - '1 month'::interval

In that case you may be better off using interval types for your period field, with the added benefit that you can use 1 query for any type of interval ('1 month', '15 days', '2 weeks', etc.). Your query would become something like:

select * from tstdates where lasttimedone - period >= now()

Regards,
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