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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:58:07 -0600
From: Aurynn Shaw <ashaw@commandprompt.com>
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Subject: Re: Timestamp, epoch and a bit confusion
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Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr. wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I working with postgreSQL for a couple of months, and now I trying to convert 
> timestamp columns in epoch and epoch to timestamp columns. So far I could 
> reach, all SQL I find by 'googling' returns an error.

SELECT extract (epoch from your_time_field) from your_table;
SELECT to_timestamp(your_epoch_field) from your_table;

> 
> Where can I find some documentation with this convertions fo 8.2.x branch? I 
> think the Manual on the main site is not very helpfull in this case!!! ;-(
> 

And you can check out the docs @
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-EXTRACT


Hope that helps,
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