Thread: Data type conversion

Data type conversion

From
"Jan Pips"
Date:
How to convert the interval type into integer, float or any "countable" data
type at the time of table creation using
select ... into?

Pips




Re: Data type conversion

From
Bruno Wolff III
Date:
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:23:46 +0200, Jan Pips <jan_pips@op.pl> wrote:
> How to convert the interval type into integer, float or any "countable" data
> type at the time of table creation using
> select ... into?

You can use extract to do that. See the date/time function documentation.
Note that months get treated as 30 days when extracting periods less
than a month from an interval.