Re: subtracting minutes from date

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
Cc: Brandon Metcalf <bmetcalf(at)nortel(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: subtracting minutes from date
Date: 2006-02-23 23:25:12
Message-ID: 20060223232512.GJ2068@pervasive.com
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:08:32PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > SELECT * FROM table WHERE date < now()::DATE::(TIMESTAMP - 60);
>
> Tell it you're subracting a minute:
>
> select now() - interval '13 minutes';

Or, better yet if you're feeding in a variable:

date < now() - ( 13 * '1 minute'::interval )
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