On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:55, Brandon Metcalf wrote: > What is the best way to store a timestamp if all I need to do is > select rows where this timestamp is less than 60 minutes prior to the > current time? > > If I have a column called date with data type timestamp without time > zone I know I can use > > SELECT * FROM table WHERE date < (now()::DATE - 7)::TIMESTAMP; > > to select rows where date is older than seven days. I'm not quite > sure how to interpret now()::DATE::TIMESTAMP since I'm not able to > answer my own question. I've tried things like: > > SELECT * FROM table WHERE date < now()::DATE::(TIMESTAMP - 60); Tell it you're subracting a minute: select now() - interval '13 minutes'; That kind of thing
