Re: upcasting multiplication in a query - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From dev@archonet.com
Subject Re: upcasting multiplication in a query
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Msg-id 49174.192.168.1.32.1047933306.squirrel@mainbox.archonet.com
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In response to upcasting multiplication in a query  ("John Guthrie" <jguthrie@psynapsetech.net>)
List pgsql-sql
> i have a schema that stores timestamps in seconds/microseconds format.
> each
> column in the table is int4. what i want to do is to compute the int8
> value
> of total microseconds, a la:
>   select (seconds*1000000)+micros from my_table;
> but it looks to me like postgresql puts the rresult into another int4
> (since
> i am getting negative numbers, i assume overflow). how can i get it to use
> int8?

Try (seconds::int8 * 10000000)+micros - you could use cast(...) if you
want to be more standard.

- Richard Huxton


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