Re: [SQL] Arithmetic operation on DATE

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:48, macky wrote:
> is it possible to add a date datatype column to a number resulting to a
> date......

chris=# select date(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
date
------------
2001-08-13
(1 row)

chris=# select date(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '6 @days'::interval;
?column?
------------------------
2001-08-19 00:00:00+12
(1 row)

chris=# select date(date(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '6 @days'::interval);
date
------------
2001-08-19
(1 row)

That what you want?

> theoretically it should do this,,,
>
> X is in months
>
> date + X = date
>
> --> 2001-08-20 + 6 = 2002-02-20
>
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