On 04/06/11 1:18 PM, Steve Crawford wrote:
select ii_purchased + your_interval_field * interval '1 year' as date
from inventory_item;
Correct. I meant ...::interval...
FWIW, '1 year'::interval implies a cast, that is a postgresql-specific
notation for cast('1 year' as interval), while in
On 04/06/2011 12:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 04/06/11 9:10 AM, Steve Crawford wrote:
select ii_purchased + your_interval_field * '1 year'::date as date
from inventory_item;
that SHOULD be written as...
select ii_purchased + your_interval_field * interval '1 year' as date
from inventory_it
On 04/06/11 9:10 AM, Steve Crawford wrote:
select ii_purchased + your_interval_field * '1 year'::date as date
from inventory_item;
that SHOULD be written as...
select ii_purchased + your_interval_field * interval '1 year' as date
from inventory_item;
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 09:18:15AM -0700, Christine Penner wrote:
> This still gave me a sytax error. The other suggestion to multiply
> the interval field by 1 year also gave me a syntax error.
...
> Any other suggestions?
...
> Christine Penner
> Ingenious Software
Live up to to it ?
Karst
This worked. Thanks
Christine Penner
Ingenious Software
250-352-9495
ch...@fp2.ca
On 06/04/2011 9:23 AM, Osvaldo Kussama wrote:
SELECT ii_purchased + ii_expected_life * '1 year'::interval FROM inventory_item;
On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:18, Christine Penner wrote:
> This still gave me a sytax error. The other suggestion to multiply the
> interval field by 1 year also gave me a syntax error.
What was the error? And it's preferable to do multiply rather than do the
equivalent of an eval on some string.
s
This still gave me a sytax error. The other suggestion to multiply the
interval field by 1 year also gave me a syntax error.
ii_purchased is a timestamp without time zone
ii_expected_life is a smallint
Any other suggestions?
Christine Penner
Ingenious Software
250-352-9495
ch...@fp2.ca
On 06
On 04/06/2011 08:54 AM, Christine Penner wrote:
I have to add a number of years to a date field. The years come from
another field in the table.
I know I can do this:
select (ii_purchased + interval '3 year') as date from inventory_item;
But I need to replace the 3 in 3 years with another fie
On 04/06/2011 08:54 AM, Christine Penner wrote:
I have to add a number of years to a date field. The years come from
another field in the table.
I know I can do this:
select (ii_purchased + interval '3 year') as date from inventory_item;
But I need to replace the 3 in 3 years with another field
