From: boyd <tbmoore@bealenet.com>
Subject: Re: unix time -> timestamp
References: <tbmoore-54811A.18291606012004@news.ispnews.com>
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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:36:41 -0500
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org

In article <tbmoore-54811A.18291606012004@news.ispnews.com>,
 boyd <tbmoore@bealenet.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure in 7.0 postgres, (but I may be wrong) you could insert 
> directly from a perl script something like this:
>    $time = time; # this gives epoch seconds
>    $sql = "insert into mytable values(..., timestamp($time), ...) ";
> 
> And then the $sql string would run with the DBI call, etc.  
> 
> When I tried the same script on 7.2, it would not take it.  I think I 
> once found another way to do it in 7.2.  Of course, I can create a 
> formatted string in perl that will be accepted by the insert, but it 
> seems inefficient to have to do it through strings. 
> 
> Boyd tbmooreATbealenetDOTcom

Sorry - five minutes later, I found it -

You just use abstime as the function to convert, as in:

   "insert into mytable values(..., abstime($time), ...) ";

 Boyd tbmooreATbealenetDOTcom