Re: age() and date intervals

From: Max Baker <max(at)warped(dot)org>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: age() and date intervals
Date: 2003-05-08 00:23:40
Message-ID: 20030508002340.GJ24817@warped.org
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Steve,

Thanks for the help!

I see what my problem was, I assumed that age(timestamp) was operating
from NOW instead of TODAY (00:00 midnight).

-m
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:13:51PM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> No problem - check the docs at:
> http://www14.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/functions-datetime.html
>
> 1 argument: age(timestamp) = subtract timestamp from today
> 2 arguments: age(timestamp, timestamp) = difference between the two timestamps
>
> Pick the one you need or just subtract:
> now()-last_discover > '1 day'::interval
>
> Cheers,
> Steve

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