How about: select abstime(start)::int - abstime(start)::int
Cheers,
Steve
On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:20 am, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Actually I'd be happy if i could simply do this
>
> SELECT age(start,end)::seconds From foo;
>
> or something very close to that. Then i could process
> the rest in perl.
>
> Jeff.
>
> >> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> >> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of
> >> nolan@celery.tssi.com
> >> Subject: [GENERAL] Time handling in pgsql. (fwd)
> >>
> >> It would be great if the 'age' function could be supplied a formatting
> >> string so that you could format the data any way you want.
> >>
> >> Within that function convert both timestamps into seconds, do
> >> the arithmetic and return the number of seconds.
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