From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Format intervall as hours/minutes etc
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:14:27 +0200
Message-ID: <20070916111427.GA13886@KanotixBox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709161300.53257.andreak@officenet.no>
References: <200709161300.53257.andreak@officenet.no>
Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no> schrieb:
> Hi all. Any hint on how to format this interval as number of hour/seconds etc?
> select age('2007-09-22 17:00'::timestamp, '2000-02-20 18:00'::timestamp);
> age
> -------------------------------
> 7 years 7 mons 1 day 23:00:00
You can use extract(epoch, from ...) like this:
test=*# select extract(epoch from '2007-09-22 17:00'::timestamp) - extract (epoch from '2000-02-20 18:00'::timestamp);
?column?
-----------
239407200
(1 row)
Now you can calculate the hours and so on.
Andreas
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