From: | Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov> |
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To: | Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: querying the age of a row |
Date: | 2007-06-07 19:08:26 |
Message-ID: | 466857AA.7080404@mail.nih.gov |
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Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov> wrote:
>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> > Greetings,
>> > I've got a PostgreSQL-8.1.x database on a Linux box. I have a need to
>> > determine which rows in a specific table are less than 24 hours old.
>> > I've tried (and failed) to do this with the age() function. From what
>> > I can tell, age() only has granularity down to days, and seems to
>> > assume that anything matching today's date is less than 24 hours old,
>> > even if there are rows from yesterday's date that existed less than 24
>> > hours ago.
>> >
>> > I've googled on this off and on for a few days, and have come up dry.
>> > Someone on a different list suggested that I add a column that get
>> > now() each time a new row is inserted, but that unfortunately won't
>> > help me for all the pre-existing rows in this database.
>> >
>> > At any rate, is there a reliable way of querying a table for rows
>> > which have existed for a specific period of time?
>> >
>>
>> So your table has no date or time stored in it at all? If not, then you
>> cannot do the query that you are suggesting.
>
> It does have a column that is populated with a date/timestamp from the
> following query:
> select to_char(current_timestamp, 'MM-DD-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
So, the column is a text column? Try these to see if it helps:
select now() - interval '24 hours';
select '06-06-2007 23:22:11'::timestamp - interval '24 hours';
select now() - interval '24 hours' < '06-06-2007 23:22:11'::timestamp;
Sean
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