| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Integer input functions for date and timestamp |
| Date: | 2010-10-22 20:13:31 |
| Message-ID: | 1287778337-sup-3755@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie oct 22 16:54:01 -0300 2010:
> Ooh, I like it. A related personal pet peeve of mine: AFAIK the
> easiest way to convert from an integer number of seconds to an
> interval representing that many seconds is:
>
> (the_int || ' s')::interval
>
> I guess we don't want to get too carried away with this, but has
> anyone else gotten annoyed by this?
Why do you go through text and concatenation? I advocate this approach:
the_int * interval '1 second'
I haven't measured it though.
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