Re: cast time interval to seconds - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: cast time interval to seconds
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Msg-id 20070910160114.GE16512@svana.org
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In response to cast time interval to seconds  (rihad <rihad@mail.ru>)
Responses Re: cast time interval to seconds  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:44:07PM +0500, rihad wrote:
> Hi, I have two columns start_time & stop_time declared as "TIME". I'd
> like to compute the difference between the two times in seconds, all in db:
>
> SELECT
>   (CAST(stop_time AS SECONDS) + 86400 - CAST(start_time AS SECONDS))
>   % 86400;

At a guess I'd say you should simply subtract the two (ie stop_time -
start_time) and then use extract() to pull the seconds out.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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