Re: IIRC + intervals + and other things

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Alexander Blüm <mailinglists1(at)gmx(dot)de>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: IIRC + intervals + and other things
Date: 2003-07-10 08:23:54
Message-ID: 1057825434.1103.57.camel@coppola.ecircle.de
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For the IIRC, HTH and other similar stuff you will find this a good
help:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Cheers,
Csaba.

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 01:03, Ian Barwick wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2003 00:45, Alexander Blüm wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I am getting more and more confused with statements like these
> >
> > > update foo set timestamp_field = timestamp_field + '365
> > > days'::interval;
> >
> > or
> >
> > > I normaly use 'abstime' and 'reltime' for dates and intervals, the major
> > > difference is 'timestamp' has microsecond time accuracy, but abstime
> > > takes less storage space IIRC.
> >
> > where do I find information on different "intervals" and things like that?
>
> These link mights help:
> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/faqdatesintervals.php
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/datatype-datetime.html
>
> > and what is IIRC ? Intelligent Inter Relay Chat ? no, probably not.
>
> ;-) "If I recall correctly"
>
> HTH
>
> Ian Barwick
> barwick(at)gmx(dot)net
>
>
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