From: | "Jimmie H(dot) Apsey" <japsey(at)futuredental(dot)com> |
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To: | "Karsten Hilbert" <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, "GNUmed list" <Gnumed-devel(at)gnu(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: doing VALID UNTIL programmatically in SQL ? |
Date: | 2003-06-11 13:41:08 |
Message-ID: | 3EE73174.8070901@futuredental.com |
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I think it has to be done like this: "now() + '@ 6 month' as
six_months_from_now;" which yields
six_months_from_now
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2003-12-11 09:38:24-05
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Jim Apsey
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Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>in a psql script for GnuMed (www.gnumed.org) I am using a
>snippet like the following for setting up predefined test
>accounts:
>
>CREATE USER "test-doc"
> WITH PASSWORD 'test-doc'
> IN GROUP "gm-doctors", "gm-public"
> VALID UNTIL '2003-09-30'
>;
>
>I would like to constrain their validity to, say, six months. I
>have tried but not found a way to tell the VALID UNTIL clause
>something like
>
> now() + '6 months'::interval
>
>Anyone have a suggestion (short of calculating in the client at
>runtime and substituting) on how to do this in plain SQL ?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>
>Karsten Hilbert, MD
>GnuMed i18n coordinator
>
>
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