From: Chris <dmagick@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: getting extract to always return number of hours
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:48:33 +1100
Message-ID: <4B43FA01.2030406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B43E887.6040402@gmail.com>
References: <4B43E887.6040402@gmail.com>
Chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get extract() to always return the number of hours between
> two time intervals, ala:
>
> => create table t1(timestart timestamp, timeend timestamp);
> => insert into t1(timestart, timeend) values ('2010-01-01 00:00:00',
> '2010-01-02 01:00:00');
>
> => select timeend - timestart from t1;
> ?column?
> ----------------
> 1 day 01:00:00
> (1 row)
>
> to return 25 hours.
I ended up with
select extract('days' from x) * 24 + extract('hours' from x) from
(select (timeend - timestart) as x from t1) as y;
mainly because t1 is rather large so I didn't want to run the end -
start calculation multiple times.
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