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this one's simpler

From
Eric McKeown
Date:
Ok, I think this questions is a little bit easier.  I have this piece of
code:

select (max(date_asked) - min(date_asked))::timespan from questions ;

And it produces this output:

timespan
------------------------------------
@ 2334 days 13 hours 21 mins 45 secs
(1 row)

Now, what I'd really like is a way to format that output into months so
that I could see the difference between the two dates in terms of months.
Pointers??

TIA...

eric

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Re: [SQL] this one's simpler

From
Maarten Boekhold
Date:
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Eric McKeown wrote:

> Ok, I think this questions is a little bit easier.  I have this piece of
> code:
>
> select (max(date_asked) - min(date_asked))::timespan from questions ;
>
> And it produces this output:
>
> timespan
> ------------------------------------
> @ 2334 days 13 hours 21 mins 45 secs
> (1 row)
>
> Now, what I'd really like is a way to format that output into months so
> that I could see the difference between the two dates in terms of months.
> Pointers??

Well, since not every month has the same number of days, and not every
*year* has the same number of days, I think this would only be possible
if you also give same starting date (ie min(date_asked)). I'd try to
write a C-function for this I guess.

Maarten

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Having problems to compile SPI

From
Jose David Martinez Cuevas
Date:
Hi.

I hope this is not a too much trivial question.

I'm having problems when compiling a new SPI function. I've been doing it
with :

    gcc -I/usr/src/postgresql-6.3.2/src/include
       -I/usr/src/postgresql-6.3.2/src/backend
       -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
       -fpic -I/usr/src/postgresql-6.3.2/src/include
       -c cascade.c -o cascade.o

but when I call de .o file from the function attached to the trigger , I
get the next message:


    ERROR:  Load of file /SAP/SQL/funcs/spi/cascade.o failed:
            /SAP/SQL/funcs/spi/cascade.o: ELF file's phentsize not the
            expected size

What can I do ???

_______________________________________
David Martinez Cuevas
Direccion General de Estadistica, UNAM - Mexico
Tel. 622-60-80
E-mail david@estadistica.unam.mx
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RE: [SQL] Having problems to compile SPI

From
"Taral"
Date:
Aren't you supposed to link SPI functions as shared libraries?

Try: gcc -shared -o cascade.so cascade.o

Taral

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pgsql-sql@hub.org [mailto:owner-pgsql-sql@hub.org]On Behalf
> Of Jose David Martinez Cuevas
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 1:07 PM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: [SQL] Having problems to compile SPI
>
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I hope this is not a too much trivial question.
>
> I'm having problems when compiling a new SPI function. I've been doing it
> with :
>
>     gcc -I/usr/src/postgresql-6.3.2/src/include
>        -I/usr/src/postgresql-6.3.2/src/backend
>        -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>        -fpic -I/usr/src/postgresql-6.3.2/src/include
>        -c cascade.c -o cascade.o
>
> but when I call de .o file from the function attached to the trigger , I
> get the next message:
>
>
>     ERROR:  Load of file /SAP/SQL/funcs/spi/cascade.o failed:
>             /SAP/SQL/funcs/spi/cascade.o: ELF file's phentsize not the
>             expected size
>
> What can I do ???
>
> _______________________________________
> David Martinez Cuevas
> Direccion General de Estadistica, UNAM - Mexico
> Tel. 622-60-80
> E-mail david@estadistica.unam.mx
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