Re: how to add seconds to a TimestampTz

If you read the autovacuum_naptime into an Interval object once, why can't
you just use timestamptz_pl_interval ? You won't be using the interval
input/output repeatedly surely.

Regards
Sailesh

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From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Herrera
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:46 PM
To: Hackers
Subject: [HACKERS] how to add seconds to a TimestampTz

Is there a better way than going to time_t and back? I am currently
using this:

db->next_worker =
time_t_to_timestamptz(timestamptz_to_time_t(current_time) +
autovacuum_naptime);

(db->next_worker is a TimestampTz, as is current_time.
autovacuum_naptime is integer for a number of seconds)

but it doesn't seem clean, and the comments in the functions more or
less say that their use is discouraged.

I saw about doing it via the interval input/output but that's an awful
lot of work ...

Is this the first time this is going to be done in the backend?

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