From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Ericson Smith <eric(at)did-it(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Unixtime (epoch) into timestamp? |
Date: | 2002-09-26 15:07:58 |
Message-ID: | 4331.1033052878@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Ericson Smith <eric(at)did-it(dot)com> writes:
> We mostly use unix times in our system because of the kind of
> applications that we have. Now we need to convert that into a timestamp.
The officially supported conversion methods are like this:
test72=# select extract(epoch from now());
date_part
------------------
1033052570.73262
(1 row)
test72=# select 'epoch'::timestamptz + interval '1033052570.73262 seconds';
?column?
------------------------------
2002-09-26 11:02:50.73262-04
(1 row)
But I tend to cheat on the latter. You can cast from int4 to abstime,
and the latter is really a time_t, so:
test72=# select 1033052570::int4::abstime;
abstime
------------------------
2002-09-26 11:02:50-04
(1 row)
And of course you can cast from abstime to timestamp. This will
probably break in 2038 ...
regards, tom lane
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