Re: [GENERAL] Returning an integer from a date

From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: rick(at)ricken(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Returning an integer from a date
Date: 1999-03-29 16:00:00
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At 12:51 +0200 on 29/03/1999, Rick Dearman wrote:

>
> I have a date field in a table, I want to create a function to
>manipulate this date, however I want the date to come to me as an integer.
>
> Is this possible? Or do I have to get it as a char *string??

What kind of an integer do you need? You could have the "milliseconds since
epoch" kind of number quite easily. Or do you need a number such as
19990301?

Herouth

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