[GENERAL] Date addition/subtraction

[Craig Bryden]

Hi

How in postgres can I do date/time subtraction or addition.
e.g. If I want to get today's date - 30 days? or current_timestamp - 1 hour?

Thanks
Craig


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Re: [GENERAL] Date addition/subtraction

[Franco Bruno Borghesi]

It's easy. You have to know that INTERVAL data type exist, so:

SELECT current_date - '30 days'::interval
SELECT current_timestamp - '1 hour'::interval

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Re: [GENERAL] Date addition/subtraction

[Scott Marlowe]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 12:32, Craig Bryden wrote:
 Hi
 
 How in postgres can I do date/time subtraction or addition.
 e.g. If I want to get today's date - 30 days? or current_timestamp - 1 hour?


select now()-interval'1 hour'

and so on.

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Re: [GENERAL] Date addition/subtraction

[Ragnar Hafstað]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:32 +0200, Craig Bryden wrote:
 
 How in postgres can I do date/time subtraction or addition.
 e.g. If I want to get today's date - 30 days? or current_timestamp - 1 hour?

easier than you think

select current_timestamp - interval '1 hour';
select current_date -interval '30 days';  -- timestamp
select current_date + interval '1 week';  -- timestamp
select date (current_date + interval '1 week');   -- date

see: 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-datetime.html

gnari



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Re: [GENERAL] Date addition/subtraction

[Dinesh Pandey]

Select current_timestamp - '30 day'::interval
Select current_timestamp - '1 hour'::interval
 

Thanks
Dinesh Pandey

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Hi

How in postgres can I do date/time subtraction or addition.
e.g. If I want to get today's date - 30 days? or current_timestamp - 1 hour?

Thanks
Craig


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