Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the feed back tom I say that but I could not believe that I > have to jump through all those hoops on an insert or update
> update mytable set (lasttime =(SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + > 982384720 * INTERVAL '1 second') ) > is this what you are saying I need to do? You can make a function that embodies whichever semantics you want. > also, what is happening with abstime(982384720)? this works as expected > (by me ). Is this a bad idea? It won't be there forever. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match