I am writing a procedure and am having a little difficulty with an interval. In the DECLARE section I have:
expire interval := '30 days'::interval; which seems to work fine. In the BEGIN block I need to pull out the number of days from a table and update the expire interval to that. But I can't quite seem to get the replacement correct. First I use "SELECT value into limit from" to get the new limit value. The value is text, but I have also tried with SELECT (value::integer) into limit from" with the same result. The error occurs here: expire := '% days'::interval, limit; Now I have tried several different ways to get a new interval, such as '' || limit || days''::interval; and other various differently quoted variations, but haven't found the one that works yet. I am still trying various combinations, but thought that someone on the list has probably done this already. I may, in fact, be doing it entirely wrong. So if someone knows the correct/better/easier way to create a dynamic interval I'd appreciate a clue. Thanks. Edward W. Rouse -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
