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From: "Gaetano Mendola" <mendola@bigfoot.com>
To: "Jinn Koriech" <lists@idealint.co.uk>,
	"PostgreSQL Mailing List" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
References: <1027357127.1451.0.camel@morph.magiclamp.2y.net>
Subject: Re: interval syntax change from 7.1.2 to 7.2.1?
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:37:45 +0200
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From: "Jinn Koriech" <lists@idealint.co.uk> wrote:
> hi - i recently upgraded my server from 7.1.2 to 7.2.1 and now one of my
> apps is no longer functioning.  this is the query:
> 
> SELECT DISTINCT rate, sum(extract(epoch from interval (end_time -
> start_time)))/3600) AS duration
>         FROM log
>         WHERE invoice_state='8'
>         GROUP BY rate HAVING rate > 0
> 
> where 'end_time' and 'start_time' are columns in table 'log'
> 
> the reported message is:
> 
> PostgreSQL said: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "end_time"
> 
> any help greatly appreciated.
> 

Redo your query putting intervall beetwen " " :

SELECT DISTINCT rate, sum(extract(epoch from "interval"(end_time -
 start_time)))/3600) AS duration
         FROM log
         WHERE invoice_state='8'
         GROUP BY rate HAVING rate > 0


Ciao
Gaetano.