| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: replacing expresion in plpgsql |
| Date: | 2013-12-16 14:47:20 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0z02V0U1h2-_b3Z+NKxk0mj0n8+TyQ0chehTrmmL5yAXA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:08 AM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
> On 12/15/2013 10:54 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>>
>> Both are valid. interval '2' day is the ANSI SQL format though.
>
>
> oh, really! ah, I stand corrected, didn't realize the units were valid
> keywords like that.
Me neither. Stuff like this is black magic implemented in the
parser...I always avoid it when I can. I would have done it like
this:
newexpdate := CURRENT_TIMESTAMP + (expdays || ' days')::interval;
merlin
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