Re: [HACKERS] Extracting time from timestamp

From: Chris Gamache <cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Extracting time from timestamp
Date: 2003-03-23 16:01:13
Message-ID: 20030323160113.96420.qmail@web13802.mail.yahoo.com
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Why not a cast?

template1=# select current_timestamp::time;
time
-----------------
11:24:22.004207
(1 row)

template1=# select current_timestamp::time(0);
time
----------
11:24:26
(1 row)

--- Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> > phd=# select time(abstime(timestamp 'now')) from bookings;
> > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "abstime" at character 13
> > phd=# select time(timestamp 'now') from bookings;
> > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "timestamp" at character 13
> > phd=# select version();
> > version
>
> Try:
>
> select "time"(abstime(timestamp 'now')) from bookings;
> select "time"(timestamp 'now') from bookings;
>
> Chris
>
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