select using date

From: Kevin Heflin <kheflin(at)shreve(dot)net>
To: "PGSQL-General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: select using date
Date: 1999-01-05 16:55:53
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.02.9901051047510.3085-100000@mercury.shreve.net
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Trying to use select statement using CURRENT_DATE
Which works fine like so:

select * from headlines where dateof = CURRENT_DATE order by dateof desc

But I'm also wanting to do something similar to:

select * from headlines where dateof = CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '1' DAY
order by dateof desc

Basically just trying to subtract 1 day from the CURRENT_DATE

When I try the above I get

ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "day"

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Kevin

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