Re: Int to Interval conversion - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bill Moran
Subject Re: Int to Interval conversion
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Msg-id 20100914091408.ef97df3b.wmoran@potentialtech.com
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In response to Int to Interval conversion  (Howard Cole <howardnews@selestial.com>)
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In response to Howard Cole <howardnews@selestial.com>:
>
> I have a table with a duration field, stored as an Integer. How can I
> retrieve this from the table as an Interval type?
>
> E.g.
>
> create table test (test_id serial primary key, time_in_minutes int);
> insert into test values (1440);
>
> Now how do I extract that as 24:00:00::interval in a query?

SELECT CAST(time_in_minutes || ' minutes' AS INTERVAL) FROM test;

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