Re: Date Interval

Magdalena Komorowska wrote:
> Hi,
> I hale a problem with counting interwal and I can't find what to do with
> this.
> I have two fields in the table:
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> -----------------+---------+-----------
> date_in | date |
> interwal_months | numeric |
> -----------------+---------+-----------
>
> Query
> SELECT date_in + INTERVAL '3 MONTH' FROM any_table
> works fine of course.
>
> However, how to do something like that?
> SELECT date_in + INTERVAL ' interwal_months MONTH' FROM any_table

How about this?

test=> CREATE TABLE test(x TEXT);
CREATE TABLE
test=> INSERT INTO test VALUES ('3');
INSERT 0 1
test=> SELECT current_timestamp + cast(x || ' months' AS INTERVAL) FROM
test;
?column?
-------------------------------
2006-03-06 11:53:05.574279-05
(1 row)

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