Re: problems with date and interval queries.

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> > interval <stuff> is the form for an interval literal. If the column is
> > already an interval, you probably don't need it at all. If you need to
> > cast it you should do a cast CAST (num_min AS INTERVAL)
>
> I don't believe there is a cast from any numeric type to interval.

Yeah, but I think he was making an interval string in the subselect,
something like '27 minutes'.

> I'd recommend the interval-times-float operator. It should work to
> write
>
> num_min * interval '1 min'
>
> This approach has the advantage that it trivially adapts to whatever
> unit you happen to have the column stated in (seconds, minutes, days, ...)

That's better in any case though :)