Re: interval conversion - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Brett Dikeman
Subject Re: interval conversion
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Msg-id 64358.63.142.161.101.1062085511.squirrel@frank.mercea.net
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In response to Re: interval conversion  (Tomasz Myrta <jasiek@klaster.net>)
List pgsql-sql
>> I have a possibly stupid question- I'm doing some time calculations yielding
>> intervals, and for my purposes I need to convert the interval(say, "1 day 8
>> hours") into (floating point) hours.  While there's a plethora of handy
>> date_extract functionality and the like, I need a conversion.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to accompish this?  Simpler the better, of course.
>
> extract(epoch from some_interval)/3600

[slaps head] I swear, I studied the date/time sections of the manual for quite
some time...really...Siiiigh :-)

Thanks Tomasz!

Brett


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