Re: Division of intervals.

From: Joshua Moore-Oliva <josh(at)chatgris(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Division of intervals.
Date: 2003-03-19 11:02:25
Message-ID: 200303190602.25779.josh@chatgris.com
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Thanks, that should work.

Hmm that gives me an idea... Maybe I'll try to make a date_ceil function
identical to date_part and submit it.

All this stuff currently just seems so messy!

Josh.

On March 19, 2003 06:13 am, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:03:50 -0500,
>
> Joshua Moore-Oliva <josh(at)chatgris(dot)com> wrote:
> > I guess that it does for this problem.. But I have other applications
> > that require the number of days... and that gets a lot more complex to
> > work out.
>
> If you subtract the timestamps the interval will have 0 for the month/year
> part and you can extract the epoch from it to get the time in seconds.
> This can be divided by 24*60*60 to get days.
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