Re: Porting from Oracl to Postgres

--- Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 00:24, Jomon Skariah wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your replys.
> >
> > We are facing another problem now.
> >
> > we need to find an alternative for Oracle's
> ADD_MONTHS in PostGres..
>
> Guessing based on the name that it adds a quantity
> of months to a
> timestamp. How about an SQL Interval?
>
> now() + interval '15 months'
>
> List of functions:
>
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/functions.html

For compatibility in your application, you could do
something like:

CREATE FUNCTION add_months(date, integer) RETURNS date
AS '
SELECT ($1 + ( $2::text || ''
months'')::interval)::date;
' LANGUAGE 'sql';

I second the recommendation to spend some time looking
over the available functions in PostgreSQL.

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