Re: if else query help

Hey, there,

This is very interesting.
I have similar problem:
I want drop some junky table in my database, how can I detect a table when last
time it is used.
I try to say that I want to know how long this table has NOT been used at all.

I don't which system table holds this statistics.

Josh Berkus wrote:

> Brian, Jean-Christophe,
>
> >Someone corrects me if I'm wrong, I come from the Oracle world...
> >
> > Dates (or I should say TimeStamps) are stored as floating point values
> > : the integer part is the number of days since a certain date
> > (epoch or 01/01/1970 on unix-based databases) and the fractionnal part is the
> > portion of the day (although I don't know --yet-- how to convert
> > date2-date1 to an integer, trunc does not work).
>
> You're doing this the hard way.  One of Postgres' best features is its
> rich collection of date-manipulation functions.  Please see:
>
> ... Hmmmm.  The online docs appear to be down.  When they're back up,
> please check the sections on: Date/Time data types, and Date/Time
> manipulation functions.
>
>                                         -Josh Berkus
>
> P.S. Brian, a general tutorial on writing SQL, such as O'Reilly's
> soon-to-be released SQL book, might help you a great deal.
>
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