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From David Olbersen
Subject Data Types
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.31.0102161045140.12655-100000@bubbles.electricutopia.net
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Hello.

I have a table in which I'm trying to store the length of a sound file. I
decided to use the TIME data type. Was this correct? One of the operations I
want to do is sum() all of my files lengths to get the total amount in terms of
time, of sound that I have.

I notice that sum() doesn't take a TIME argument, so I cast it to an interval
as such: SELECT SUM( length::interval ) FROM songs;

However this gives me output that I don't know how to read: '7 02:34:27'
Does that read as 7 Days, 2 Hours, 34 Minutes and 27 seconds?

TIA

-- Dave



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