Jeff Davis wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:03 -0600, Jeff Ross wrote:
select
ts_date as "Transcript Date",
ts_expiration_date as "Current Expiration Date",
expiration_value as "Expiration Interval"
from transcript, training_expiration_value where
ts_training_id = trgexpd_trg_id and
ts_training_id in (select cda_training_number from cdas) and
ts_expiration_date != ts_date + interval 'expiration_value';
and I'm getting the following error:
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type interval: "expiration_value"
This error is saying that it is trying to convert the string
'expiration_value' to an interval.
What you really want it to convert the string value held inside a
variable named "expiration_value" to an interval.
For that, you need to do expiration_value::interval
Regards,
Jeff Davis
Thank you! That combined with the subselect wrapper trick I learned
last time I visited the list hat in hand worked wonderfully.
Jeff