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From: Shawn <postgres@xmtservices.net>
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Subject: Re: Question 2 Interval and timestamptz
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:34:22 +0000
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Awesome Adrian!

Thanks!  Just what I needed.....

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 16:24:34 you wrote:
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Shawn <postgres@xmtservices.net>
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > The second part of my question is:
> >
> > Given a value as an interval, see previous posting, is there a simply
> > method to take a given timestamptz value and a given interval value and
> > create the sum or difference of the 2 in timestamptz format?
> >
> > The scenario is that the afore mentioned tables, see previous post, in
> > addition to the duration varchar field, also have a field called
> > event_at_utc which is a timestamptz type.  I need to calculate the end
> > time of the event given the interval calculated from the duration
> > (varchar) field.
> >
> > Any all all help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Shawn
>
> select '2008-03-26 09:21:44':: timestamptz + (('134987'::int/1000)*
> interval '1 second'); ?column?
> ------------------------
>  2008-03-26 09:23:58-07
> (1 row)
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> aklaver@comcast.net