Re: timestamps

From: Steven Klassen <sklassen(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Martin Atukunda <matlads(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: timestamps
Date: 2004-12-14 16:35:11
Message-ID: 20041214163511.GA21117@commandprompt.com
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# The schema for translog is as follows:
#
# CREATE TABLE translog (
# id serial,
# action integer,
# sdate varchar(16) NOT NULL,
# stime varchar(16) NOT NULL
# );

I assume you mean the composite sdate/stime is 1 minute ago?

Instead of storing separate date & time varchar fields, why don't you
store one timestamp field? Then a query like this would work:

SELECT * FROM translog WHERE start <= (now() - '1 minute'::interval);

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