From: Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5@yahoo.com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: to_char(interval) ?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:48:33 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20050425114833.89927.qmail@web41010.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
This is perfect.
select extract(epoch from '1 day 1 hour 15
minute'::interval)/3600 || 'hours';
?column?
------------
25.25hours
(1 row)
I must have looked at this for hours and not seen the
'interval' part of the epoch...
Thanks,
Ted
--- Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 13:08:04 -0700,
> Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > how do I get an interval '1 day 1 hour' to display
> as
> > '25 hours'. I am hunting in the docs (and
> googling)
> > and either I am blind or I need a special
> function?
> >
> > Is there an easy way?
>
> EXTRACT epoch from the interval and divide by 3600
> and concatenate to ' hours'.
>
> area=> select extract(epoch from '1 day 1
> hour'::interval)/3600 || ' hours';
> ?column?
> ----------
> 25 hours
> (1 row)
>
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