Re: [SQL] adding time to a datetime field ... how? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

select start_time,start_time+acctsessiontime::timespan from log;

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

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> I hate coming up with subjects...
> 
> I have a table with two fields: start_time::datetime and
> acctsessiontime::int4...I want to add the second to the first, to give me
> a stop_time...
> 
> if I do:
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> select start_time,start_time+acctsessiontime from log;
> 
> I get a stop_time 'acctsessiontime' days after start_time, instead of
> 'acctsessiontime' seconds later...
> 
> Is there some way of telling it to pass seconds instead of days?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
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