Re: date arithmetic

From: Osvaldo Rosario Kussama <osvaldo_kussama(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>
To: chrisj <chrisj(dot)wood(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: date arithmetic
Date: 2006-08-10 19:21:07
Message-ID: 44DB8723.6020401@yahoo.com.br
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chrisj escreveu:
> Hi ALL,
>
> I want to do date arithmetic in SQL with a column that is integer.
>
> example
>
> create table bob (
> col1 timestamp
> , col2 int4
> ;
>
> where col2 represents a number of minutes.
>
>
> I want to do something like
>
> select col1 + interval col2 minutes
> from bob
>
> This is doable with most other RDBMS (DB2, Oracle MS SQL) what am I
> missing??
>
> I know one option is to create col2 as interval, but does not work for me.
> How can I cast int4 to "interval minutes"

SELECT col1 + col2*interval '1 miunute' FROM bob;

[]s
Osvaldo


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