Re: Hrm. interval() function?

--On Friday, March 14, 2003 10:52:46 +0800 Christopher Kings-Lynne
<chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

>> >> ler=# select interval('6 months');
>> >> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "'6 months'" at character 17
>> >> ler=# select interval('6 months'::text);
>> >> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "'6 months'" at character 17
>> >> ler=#
>> >
>> > Try:
>> >
>> > select "interval"('6 months');
>> >
>> That works, but is non-intuitive. I assume this is a reserved word
>> issue?
>
> It's been like that since 7.2 introduced sql standard syntax for various
> timestmap things.
>
>> Can it be fixed?
>
> Nope - the correct way to use that function is this:
>
> select interval '6 months';
Drat, SQL gets me again :-).

Thanks,
LER

>
> Chris

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