Re: Subtracting from a date

What would be wrong with:

SELECT date_effective FROM your_table WHERE date_effective <= (now() + '3 years ago')

Certainly looks alittle mmore readable.

Andy

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Moray McConnachie wrote:

> WHERE age('now',date_effective::datetime)<='3 years'::timespan
> 
> I don't know if 'now' in that context is still the authoritative way to
> write now, maybe it should be
> 
> WHERE age(now(),date_effective::datetime)<='3 years'::timespan
> 
> if date_effective is actually a datetime field, which I understand we are
> moving to in 7.0 (date fields being non-SQL-standard), then you don't need
> the cast, obviously.
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> Subject: [SQL] Subtracting from a date
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> 
> > I need to find all records with a date field (date_effective) 3 years or
> > less prior to now().  This clearly must be possible, but I'm not figuring
> > it out.  Any suggestions?
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