Re: porting time calcs to PG

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:44:35PM -0700, greg(at)bryantrecording(dot)com wrote:
> fields. The WHERE clause that I use in SQL Server is:
> getdate() + ((2100 + 5 + (9*Points)) / 86400) >= DueTime
>
> Where the numbers are actually parameters passed in to the function.
> Other than changine getdate() to now(), I'm not sure how to change the
> + interval to be effective. All the docs I see use something like
> interval '1 hour' - not sure how to put a calculated value in the
> quotes. Is this possible?

Sure. Something like

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP + (((2100 + 5 + (9*"Points")) /
86400) || 'seconds')::interval >= "DueTime"

oughta work.

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