Yes - I am a complete idiot: The query is indeed completely wrong, it should be current_timestamp not current_time. I finaly figured this out after staring at the screen for twenty minutes trying to figure out what was going wrong. DOH! Alex Turner NetEconomist On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:14:58 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alex Turner <armtuk@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > -> Seq Scan on weblog_entry (cost=0.00..940.85 rows=4452 width=40) > > Filter: ((request_time)::text > ((('now'::text)::time(6) with > > time zone - '00:01:00'::interval))::text) > > > This explain plain seems to me to be saying that it's casting the > > timestamp to a text type before comparing with my > > current_time-interval. > > Yup. > > > Is this the right behaviour? > > Hard to say. You did not say what the datatype of request_time is. > > The whole thing looks a bit bogus though --- isn't it going to fail near > midnight due to wraparound? Seems like you should be using timestamps > not times of day. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx