| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | ed despard <despareg(at)clarkson(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: adding times togeather |
| Date: | 2003-04-28 22:40:36 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0304281639070.14672-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, ed despard wrote:
> what i have is two columns that represent the times for sections of a
> race, so i have column A that is say 0:20:23 and i have column B that
> is 0:21:45 and i want to have a column that is A+B where that would be
> 0:42:18 in this case.
Store them as intervals and you can do that pretty easily:
create table th (n interval, p interval);
CREATE TABLE
marl8412=# insert into th values ('00:02:23','00:03:43');
INSERT 4505763 1
marl8412=# select n+p as time from th;
time
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00:06:06
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