Re: fomatting an interval (resend)

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fomatting an interval (resend)
Date: 2003-05-13 01:47:00
Message-ID: 3EC04E94.9060506@selectacast.net
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Tom Lane wrote:

>>>> How can I format an interval?
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> Well, there are several possibilities such as to_char() and EXTRACT()
> ...
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Right, except I don't know what format to use for to_char()

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>> I want something like the default format but without the milliseconds.
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> ... but for this particular problem, why not just round the given
> interval to an integral number of seconds, by casting it to interval(0)?
>

playpen=# select version();
version
---------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC egcs-2.91.66
(1 row)

playpen=# begin;
BEGIN
playpen=# create table timetable (start timestamp, finish timestamp);
CREATE TABLE
playpen=# insert into timetable values('2003-05-12 21:37:44.933', '2003-05-12 21:39:14.752');
INSERT 1648889 1
playpen=# select start, finish, (finish-start),(finish-start)::interval(0) from timetable;
start | finish | ?column? | interval
-------------------------+-------------------------+--------------+--------------
2003-05-12 21:37:44.933 | 2003-05-12 21:39:14.752 | 00:01:29.819 | 00:01:29.819
(1 row)

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