Re: Simplicity in time/date functions

7.1 didn't like (), but otherwise still works.

fbax=# select current_date - 28;
?column?
------------
2001-12-06

Frank

At 02:44 PM 1/3/02 -0500, Darren Ferguson wrote:
>dev=> select current_date() - 28;
> ?column?
>------------
> 2001-12-06
>
>Works for 7.2b
>
>Darren
>
>
>Darren Ferguson
>Software Engineer
>Openband
>
>On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I was amazed that:
>> select current_date() - 28 dont work at postgresql :(
>>
>> I checked here and there and found that in postgresql i need to do
something
>> like this:
>>
>> select current_date::TIMESTAMP - '28 days'::INTERVAL as date
>>
>> whow, is there a shorter way ?
>>
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