From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: patrick <patrick+pgsql@boxsoft.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: converting time_t to timestamp?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:42:42 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20030311203552.S48276-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030311185704.D24959@3eye.boxsoft.com>
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, patrick wrote:
> I'm reposting this question since I received zero replies from my
> original post (maybe the original subject line was misleading).
> I've just^W upgraded from PostgreSQL 7.1.2 to 7.3.2.
>
> In 7.1.2 I was able to use the output of time(2) (and the like) to
> insert into a field of timestamp type.
>
> First thing i noticed with the upgrade was that the following broke:
The old syntax somewhat conflicted with the full type specifier when we
added the precision stuff. Unfortunately, the change caught alot of
people. :(
>
> in 7.1.2
> => select timestamp ( 1046923200 );
> timestamp
> ------------------------
> 2003-03-05 20:00:00-08
> (1 row)
>
> in 7.3.2
> => select timestamp ( 1046923200 );
> ERROR: TIMESTAMP(1046923200) precision must be between 0 and 6
>
>
> Can anyone point me to a work-around?
>
> I notice that I can use abstime( 1046923200 ) to get the desired
> result. But is this the optimal way to do this?
'epoch'::timestamp + (<integer> * '1 second'::interval);
seems more explicit to me (in its intention), but probably isn't as
efficient as the int4->abstime->timestamp path.
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