Re: querying the age of a row

Unfortunately, its too late now. The database (and its tables) have
been around for a while, so even if I added this column, it wouldn't
help me for the thousands of pre-existing rows. Thanks though.

On 6/7/07, codeWarrior <gpatnude(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Interesting issue --
>
> I have usually solved this by adding a specific field to each table with a
> default timestamp of NOW()...
>
> When you:
>
> CREATE TABLE tbl (
>
> blah...
> blah....
>
> create_dt TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
>
> );
>
> each and every record now has a timestamp of exactly when the row was
> created -- then it is a simple query to select, update, or delete WHERE
> create_dt < (NOW() - interval '1 day')...
>
>
> HTH....
>
>
> ""Lonni J Friedman"" <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in message
> news:7c1574a90706071047x773c7085yf0d9f100dbca51da(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com(dot)(dot)(dot)
> > 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.
> > At any rate, is there a reliable way of querying a table for rows
> > which have existed for a specific period of time?
> >

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