Re: Few Queries

Hello Richard,

I'm really thankful to you. It worked. Somehow I wasn't getting it to work.

This line did the trick.

set_time := current_date() - (var_history_age_limit::text || '' days
'')::interval;

Regards,
-Sugandha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: "Sugandha Shah" <Sugandhas(at)cybage(dot)com>; "Janning Vygen" <vygen(at)gmx(dot)de>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Few Queries

On Wednesday 14 Aug 2002 1:29 pm, Sugandha Shah wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> No luck . Even with Select Into . Please if any body has faced similar
> problem and knows a solution.

You don't need select into here - the sample below deletes everything older
than one day. You should be able to adapt it to your needs. Your example had
a + rather than a - which would delete things in the future, that might have
been what you intended, or it might not.

The RAISE NOTICE line prints a useful debug value. I like to scatter these
around while I'm testing.

CREATE FUNCTION del_old_history() RETURNS int4 AS '
DECLARE
var_history_age_limit int4;
set_time timestamp;
BEGIN
var_history_age_limit:=1;
set_time := current_date() - (var_history_age_limit::text || '' days
'')::interval;
RAISE NOTICE ''set time = %'',set_time;
delete from history where complete_time <= set_time;

return var_history_age_limit;
END;'
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

-- Richard Huxton

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