On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:51 AM David Gauthier
<davegauthierpg@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi:
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> In perl/DBI, I have code that's getting me an "age" which returns something like... "-17 days -08:29:35". How can I
convertthat to a number of hours (as a float I would presume) ?
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> Thanks
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I've done this as
select extract(epoch from '-17 days -08:29:35'::interval)/3600 as hours;
hours
-------------------
-416.493055555556
(1 row)
Others might have a better way, though.
Pete
