Re: IIRC + intervals + and other things

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