Re: Statistical aggregates with intervals - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ondrej Ivanič
Subject Re: Statistical aggregates with intervals
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Msg-id CAM6mieKEcFnidnQDWG7o+QE1Bi+6eBTPLEMisa4kB2Se6A8Rrw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Statistical aggregates with intervals  (Christopher Swingley <cswingle@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On 24 August 2012 07:39, Christopher Swingley <cswingle@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know why, but you could convert 'interval' into something else
> where all the functions work:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION interval_to_seconds(interval)
> RETURNS double precision AS $$
>     SELECT (extract(days from $1) * 86400)
>          + (extract(hours from $1) * 3600)
>          + (extract(minutes from $1) * 60)
>          + extract(seconds from $1);
> $$ LANGUAGE SQL;

Looks complicated. You can extract 'epoch':
db=# select now() - (now() - interval '1 day');
 ?column?
----------
 1 day
(1 row)

db=# select extract(epoch from (now() - (now() - interval '1 day')));
 date_part
-----------
     86400
(1 row)


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Ondrej Ivanic
(ondrej.ivanic@gmail.com)


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