Re: Regarding interval conversion functions and a seeming lack of usefulness

From: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Regarding interval conversion functions and a seeming lack of usefulness
Date: 2008-02-27 16:32:16
Message-ID: 20080227113216.ecdff652.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com
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In response to Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com> writes:
> > There seems to be a lack of useful functions for converting intervals
> > to useful representations. For example, I want to display an interval
> > in hours and fractions of hours only, not hours and minutes.
>
> Perhaps EXTRACT(EPOCH ...) to get total seconds and then do some
> arithmetic?

Well, that's more or less what I've been doing (although the EPOCH
thing shortened the code up a bit, thanks!).

It just seemed like this would be something so common that there'd
be something in existence already. I guess I was wrong.

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com
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