Test text value as interval - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Robert Fitzpatrick
Subject Test text value as interval
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Msg-id 1202431065.8707.38.camel@columbus.webtent.org
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Been searching for a way to do this, but haven't found what I was hoping
to find. Is there any way in pl/pgsql to test a text value to see if it
would be a valid interval without having to try and store in a field? In
a trigger, I'd like to test a NEW text type field. Right now, I have
just the following to generate an error...

test := NEW.textfield::interval;

I'd like to test the field and RAISE EXCEPTION if not valid interval.

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Robert


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