Re: subtract a day from the NOW function

I just figured it out.  The solution is:

select to_char((now() - interval '1 day'), 'YYYYMMDD');

Thanks,

Table

Field “some_timestamp” is a timestamp.

In a “WHERE” statement I need to compare a timestamp field in a table “some_timestamp” to now() – one day.

Example:

SELECT some_timestamp WHERE to_char(some_timestamp, ‘YYYYMMDD’) > (to_char(now(), ‘YYYYMMDD’) – 1 day);

The statement “to_char(now(), ‘YYYYMMDD’) – 1 day)” is obviously incorrect.  I just need to know how to form this in a way that will work.

If there is an entirely different solution I am all for it.  Do note that I started down this path because I want to exclude the hour, minutes and seconds found in the field “some_timestamp” and in the function now().

Thanks,

Lance Campbell

Project Manager/Software Architect

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