From: Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
To: Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) <Pradeepkumar.Pyatalo@honeywell.com>
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] how to cast localtimestamp to bigint???
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:58:08 -0600
Message-ID: <411BA1A0.8010206@onesystem.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77ED2BF75D59D1439F90412CC5B109741027FF0F@ie10-sahara.hiso.honeywell.com>
References: <77ED2BF75D59D1439F90412CC5B109741027FF0F@ie10-sahara.hiso.honeywell.com>
I would have expected
SELECT current_timestamp::abstime::bigint;
to have worked, but there is no conversion abstime -> bigint.
Instead use
SELECT current_timestamp::abstime::int::bigint;
The final cast to bigint is not strictly neccessary.
This all begs the question, though, of why you are using a bigint for
createtime and not a timestamp?
Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a table something like this....
>
> CREATE TABLE(PointId integer, PointName varchar(50),PointType integer,
> createtime bigint);
>
> where createtime is the current timestamp when the tuple is inserted.
>
> now how do I insert values into the above table. Is there a way to cast
> timestamp to bigint.
> Also can anyone suggest as to which date function to use -
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIMESTAMP, timeofday(), now....
>
>
>
>>With Best Regards
>>Pradeep Kumar P J
>>
>
>
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