From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Time difference without intervals
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 09:52:32 -0600
Message-ID: <20021109155232.GA18883@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27705.1036789865@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <20021108182002.GC25961@cc.usu.edu>
<27705.1036789865@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 16:11:05 -0500,
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu> writes:
> > Is there any way to make a timestamp difference operation not return an
> > interval? I'd like to get hours, minutes and seconds only, not the "1 day"
> > or whatnot.
>
> I think your complaint is not that you get an interval, but that you
> want it displayed differently. See to_char() ...
I looked at to_char before suggesting extract. The problem is that to_char
will only return hours modulo days. His question implied that he was
going to have intervals longer than a day, so I don't believe to_char
will work.
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