Re: [GENERAL] missing something obvious about intervals? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [GENERAL] missing something obvious about intervals?
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Msg-id 2116.1134446878@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] missing something obvious about intervals?  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:34:45PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> You are better off doing a multiply. Something like:
>> area=> select '2005-12-01'::date + 456.5 * '1 second'::interval;
>> ?column?
>> ------------------------
>> 2005-12-01 00:07:36.50
>> (1 row)

> This comes up often enough that it's probably worth adding a built-in
> function,

The only case I've noticed seeing on a regular basis is Unix timestamp
conversion (ie, the special case where the date is 1970-01-01); and we
did add a built-in function for that in 8.1.
        regards, tom lane


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