--- Aaron Cline <acline@okstateREMOVECAPS.edu> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm relatively new here so excuse me if I sound dumb. I need
> to know if
> (I'm pretty sure it is) it is possible to compare an old
> recorded timestamp
> with the current timestamp and if the old timestamp is say 30
> days old,
> have that entry deleted?
You can do this with a single SQL query so no DBI-specific
coding is necessary:
DELETE FROM table WHERE date_field < (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP -
INTERVAL '30 days')
Brent
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