Re: How to Substract Milliseconds from A timestamp(3) Field - Mailing list pgsql-novice

SELECT (end_time - interval '00:00:05') AS work_timestamp FROM mytable;

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Brandon Aiken
CS/IT Systems Engineer

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From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Lane Van Ingen
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:33 PM
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: [NOVICE] How to Substract Milliseconds from A timestamp(3)
Field

In PLPGSQL, does anyone know how to subtract MILLISECONDS from a field
defined as timestamp(3), yielding another field defined as timestamp(3)?

Have been trying interval, and conversion functions but no luck.

Example: '2006-10-17 14:23:28.951'; subtract 5 milliseconds from a field

   called mytable.end_time, and return the results to a field named
   work_timestamp.

work_timestamp := ????



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