Re: to_char(interval) --- done?

--On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 09:53:58 -0800 Josh Berkus
<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Larry,
>
>> > What about EXTRACT(months FROM <interval_field>)?
>> >
>> > This annoyingly wraps around if it's more than 12 months, but that was
>> > part of my proposal ...
>> I needed like 5 years (60 months)...
>>
>> So, the wrap around is not good in this case.
>
> Easy:
> CREATE FUNCTION show_months ( interval ) returns text as '
> SELECT CAST( (( extract(years from $1) * 12 ) + extract(months from $1))
> AS text ) || '' months'';
> ' LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT;
>
> (above not checked for typos)
>
> I'd swear that you posted your question on pgsql-sql and I posted the
> above solution some months ago.
I did post, but this solution did **NOT** get posted. So, I kept my field
as
INT.

BUT, thank you for this.

LER

>
> --
> -Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>

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