Hi, It looks as if psql has internal variables I am how ever not able to get it to work in the way I want. I need to store the current date and then delete all elements from 3 tables based on the same date. I tried to set the variable curtime: set curtime now() but I could not use it in a delete: delete from table_a where ts_date < curtime; If I just delete from table_a and then table_b and the table_c I may risk deleting rows in table_b and table_c which correspond to rows in table_a. (due to the different times returned by now(); I would have used on delete cascade but I can not due to the way that the data is generated for the tables. Thanks for any help you may provide, /Thor __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
