From: Lane Van Ingen <lvaningen@esncc.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: What Am I Doing Wrong?
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:38:54 -0400
Message-ID: <EKEMKEFLOMKDDLIALABIIEPMCDAA.lvaningen@esncc.com> (raw)
I have been trying to subtract two timestamps from each other to determine
the difference between the two timestamps (current time and a past timestamp
called 'updated_time') IN SECONDS, but no luck.
The trouble I am having is getting the first timestamp, representing the
current time, to translate to seconds; have tried different commands (now(),
localtimestamp, current_timestamp, etc)
What am I doing wrong? Sample statement and error message is below:
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select EXTRACT(EPOCH from TIMESTAMP current_timestamp) - EXTRACT(EPOCH from
TIMESTAMP updated_time) ::integer
ERROR: syntax error at or near "current_timestamp" at character 37
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