Re: [GENERAL] Expiration date.

On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Michal A. Kowalski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> what is the easiest way to check if record in database has expired? I have
> records with field CREATED - filled with datetime('now'::abstime) function -
> and with field EXPIRE - filled with number of days for which this record
> remain valid. Is there any way to add days in EXPIRE to CREATED in proper way
> and chceck if this particular record should be deleted using functions
> embedded in PgSQL or maybe I should do this outside Pg, maybe in Perl?

caffeine=> create table tmp ( expdays int4 not null, createdate datetime
not null);
...
caffeine=> select * from tmp;

expdays|createdate
-------+----------------------------
     30|Mon Sep 27 02:28:16 1999 EST
      3|Mon Sep 27 02:32:25 1999 EST
     30|Sat Aug 28 02:34:49 1999 EST
     30|Thu Jul 29 02:34:52 1999 EST
(4 rows)

caffeine=> select createdate,expdays, (createdate + (expdays ||
'days')::timespan)::datetime as expire from tmp;

createdate                  |expdays|expire
----------------------------+-------+----------------------------
Mon Sep 27 02:28:16 1999 EST|     30|Wed Oct 27 02:28:16 1999 EST
Mon Sep 27 02:32:25 1999 EST|      3|Thu Sep 30 02:32:25 1999 EST
Sat Aug 28 02:34:49 1999 EST|     30|Mon Sep 27 02:34:49 1999 EST
Thu Jul 29 02:34:52 1999 EST|     30|Sat Aug 28 02:34:52 1999 EST
(4 rows)

caffeine=> select * from tmp where (createdate + (expdays || 'days')::timespan)::datetime < NOW ();

expdays|createdate
-------+----------------------------
     30|Sat Aug 28 02:34:49 1999 EST
     30|Thu Jul 29 02:34:52 1999 EST
(2 rows)

like that ?

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