Yesterday - in Redshift & PostgreSQL - date addition compatibility - amazon-redshift

Attempting to write queries that will be compatible with both PostgreSQL and Amazon Redshift.
Reason: Syncing data from PG to RS to perform complex queries, but in dev/QA environments budget (and DB size) dictates to stay with PG only.
Request: return yesterday's date
In PostgreSQL:
SELECT DATE((NOW() - '1 DAY'::INTERVAL));
In Redshift:
SELECT DATE(DATEADD(DAY, -1, GETDATE()));
Problem: Neither works in the other platform.
Is there a compatible way to achieve requested action?
ORM is an option we'd like to avoid.

The following works in Postgres and Redshift:
ANSI standard SQL:
SELECT current_date - interval '1' day;
-- 2018-06-19 00:00:00
SELECT current_timestamp - interval '1' day;
-- 2018-06-19 13:40:06.509337+00
Postgres (and I believe Redshift as well) also supports the alternative (non-standard) interval syntax: interval '1 day'
Or more compact (not 100% ANSI SQL but works in both):
SELECT current_date - 1;
-- 2018-06-19 00:00:00
SELECT current_timestamp - 1;
-- 2018-06-19 13:40:06.509337+00

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Now I have 2 queries:
select * from raws where time > NOW() - INTERVAL '15 day';
This one gives me this:
2021-04-08 00:00:00
2021-04-08 00:10:00
2021-04-08 00:20:00
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It doesn't work anymore: I get 0 results, but no errors.
So what is it that makes the second query fail?
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I have an application in which I've used MySQL. I had a report that stretched records of the last 24 hours. I used the query:
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WHERE workorder.createdtime > current_date - 1 -- Yesterday and today
WHERE workorder.createdtime > current_timestamp - interval '1 day' -- last 24hr
> TIMESTAMP 'yesterday'
For convenience, Postgres includes a few hard-coded values as special Date/Time inputs. They include:
yesterday
today
tomorrow
now
Try SELECT TIMESTAMP 'now'.
For example, here is a query.
SELECT when_row_created_
FROM customer_
WHERE when_row_created_ > TIMESTAMP 'yesterday'
ORDER BY when_row_created_ DESC
;
These commands may not be appropriate to production code, but they certainly are handy in development. Read the docs and do some practice to be sure you understand the behavior of these commands, how the session’s time zone affects them and so on.
Downsides include (a) implicitly ignoring the crucial issue of time zone, and (b) not standard SQL.
where workorder.createdtime >= now() - interval '24 hour'
WHERE workorder.createdtime::date = current_date - 1; --from yesterday