Re: how to add seconds to a TimestampTz - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Sailesh Krishnamurthy
Subject Re: how to add seconds to a TimestampTz
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Msg-id 003001c766a9$c3f1ac10$8a01a8c0@plum
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In response to how to add seconds to a TimestampTz  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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If you read the autovacuum_naptime into an Interval object once, why can't 
you just use timestamptz_pl_interval ? You won't be using the interval 
input/output repeatedly surely.

Regards
Sailesh

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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org 
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Herrera
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:46 PM
To: Hackers
Subject: [HACKERS] how to add seconds to a TimestampTz

Is there a better way than going to time_t and back?  I am currently
using this:
db->next_worker =    time_t_to_timestamptz(timestamptz_to_time_t(current_time) +                  autovacuum_naptime);

(db->next_worker is a TimestampTz, as is current_time.
autovacuum_naptime is integer for a number of seconds)

but it doesn't seem clean, and the comments in the functions more or
less say that their use is discouraged.

I saw about doing it via the interval input/output but that's an awful
lot of work ...

Is this the first time this is going to be done in the backend?

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