From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: unix timestamp
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:54:11 -0700
Message-ID: <4DB1B2B3.40605@pinpointresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93361C67E4EE844A80935863A4FF4B6C04E86CB9@Exch2010MB-2.univ.dir.wwu.edu>
References: <93361C67E4EE844A80935863A4FF4B6C04E86CB9@Exch2010MB-2.univ.dir.wwu.edu>
On 04/21/2011 12:19 PM, Marc Fromm wrote:
>
> Is there a way to query a unix timestamp date? In the database the
> orderdate field is a unix timestamp.
>
> I would like to create the where clause to a query on a specific date
> like December 17, 2010.
>
> Select * from orders where orderdate = '12/17/2010';
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc
>
If by "unix timestamp" you mean epoch, just extract the epoch from your
date or timestamp:
steve=# select extract(epoch from date '12/17/2010');
date_part
------------
1292572800
Cheers,
Steve
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: scrawford@pinpointresearch.com, Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu
Subject: Re: unix timestamp
In-Reply-To: <4DB1B2B3.40605@pinpointresearch.com>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox