In article <1082322155.6031.3.camel@atlas.sol.deeper.co.nz>, Hadley Willan <hadley.willan@deeperdesign.co.nz> writes: > Hi all, > I want to write a function in pgsql that given a number like 7 turns that > into a date, 7 weeks in the past. I have a table that is essentially logging > some information and want to write a trigger that is data driven in trimming > old values out of the log, that way if I thought that 4 weeks was sufficient, > I could adjust the value. Are you absolutely sure you want to do that? This would prune old log entries on every insert. Why not trimming via crontab? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org